Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week this new advantage was exploited. A Flying Fortress made an observation flight over Wake, cruising back & forth over the island taking pictures. At about the same time as the Solomon Islands attack, U.S. surface ships moved in and bombarded Jap vessels and shore installations at Kiska. When the attack came in the South Pacific the Jap obviously could not be sure what to expect...
Ding Dong. The fighting that accompanied the attack was of that bitter kind that can be expected in landing on a hostile shore against a determined enemy. The Japs announced that their planes went out and engaged the attacking vessels in a raging storm. As usual they made exaggerated claims of losses inflicted on the U.S.-asserted that they had sunk a battleship and 21 other warships and transports...
...Stalingrad nights are very alarming. Simultaneously along a 30-kilometer shore air-raid hooters sound. Then the searchlights begin rotating, and with a loud chorus the roar of anti-aircraft guns starts. After 60 or 90 minutes the all-clear is sounded. The Fascist airplanes can not break through the circle of fire thrown up. Stalingrad lives and works...
From the north the Jap launched an air armada against Midway. Not a plane was on the ground when he got there. The Marines, in stubby Grumman Wildcats, met him over the shore. With the help of anti-aircraft they knocked down 40 planes in the most concentrated dogfight U.S. airmen had ever seen...
...Attack. At 6 o'clock that June morning, 15 carrier-based bombers swept over Dutch Harbor and nearby Fort Mears for 20 minutes, smashing and setting fire to barracks and warehouses. Expecting the attack, shore batteries and ship anti-aircraft guns opened up five minutes before the first bomb dropped. Two raiders were downed. Next day 18 bombers guarded by 16 fighters attacked Dutch Harbor again, while nine other bombers struck at Fort Glenn on Umnak Island 70 miles west, where two more raiders were destroyed. Dutch Harbor fuel tanks, a warehouse and the beached station ship Northwestern (used...