Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schedule, but it was not failing. It was going bloodily and slowly. On the eleventh day the Navy announced that the invaders completely surprised the Japs in the first landings, took some prisoners, destroyed 18 seaplanes at their moorings. But after eleven days the Marines were still in their "shore positions"-a sufficient indication that the going had been hard, that many & many a young Marine had fallen in his first battle, that the Marines had done exceedingly well to hold their beachheads...
...Battle of the Solomons is a U.S. victory it will be on Admiral Ghormley's blouse that the medal is pinned-and deservedly. Starting from a base 3,600 miles from home, he had to organize the most difficult kind of amphibious operation, a landing on a hostile shore, in dangerous waters, against an enemy with land-based aircraft...
Private Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor-on-leave of PM, started basic training with an Engineers shore regiment at Camp Edwards, Mass...
...agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...
...Stalingrad is the St. Louis of the Volga. The western shore is a wall of brown four-storied landing stages that look like floating Montana boardinghouses. Large-bosomed women hand out of windows. Moppets, stripped to the waist, fish for minnows with flies hooked to bent pins...