Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beach where the four men landed was a stretch of sand half-hidden by high grass and the low rolling dunes of Long Island's south shore, near Amagansett. They worked fast, dug a hole, gingerly buried a number of wooden boxes unloaded from their boat, finally buried the collapsible rubber boat itself, covered everything with sand. Then they headed swiftly for New York...
Four nights later, 1,100 miles south along the Atlantic Coast, a second submarine surfaced, crawled towards shore. Again four men pushed off in a collapsible boat, paddled into palm-bordered Ponte Vedra Beach near Jacksonville. The second batch of silent men made a cache in the sand, headed north...
...populated isles for action, he urged all non-war-occupied women, children, elders and invalids to take advantage of the Army Transport Service and leave at once. A few days later, U.S. bombers struck at Wake Island, Japan's nearest base to Pearl Harbor, damaged an airfield and shore installations...
...naval officer laughed. "Oh, they've got me on shore duty," he said. "Nursing these goddam land mines...
...Navy's defenses on the Gulf of Mexico). "Fat lot of good that did me," said Lieut. Kauffman. "Eyes went back on me just after I finished at Annapolis. I thought maybe they'd be good enough for the Royal Navy. They are -for shore duty...