Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the Barents Sea, where Russian submarines had reported sinking several Nazi transports, the Russians set off in warships crowded with soldiers in ponderous winter clothing. They wheeled wide around the German left flank on the shore, then steamed in and landed their fighting...
...through the harbor nets in the Loire estuary under a bright dome of anti-aircraft fire that brought into sharp relief the gaunt lines of her ancient U.S. hull. Around her, the motor gunboats and torpedo boats whined and sputtered. Above her. R.A.F. bombers roared and pounded. From the shore two powerful searchlights sought her out, and as the land batteries cut loose with furious cross-fire she belched angrily from her four thin stacks, stepped up her speed to 20 knots. Her 4-in. deck guns were quick to answer the shells that screamed at her from every side...
...airdromes, dropped flares over the city of Rhodes which lit it brilliantly. Their target clear, the guns of the fleet in 20 minutes flung 20 tons of shells at motor-torpedo-boat bases, docks and factories. Startled Italian defenders took ten minutes to man their anti-aircraft guns and shore batteries, were still firing into the sky (thinking they were being bombed) when the attacking ships retired. Not a plane was lost, not a rating injured, the British reported, in an action with a dual purpose: 1) to cripple Axis bases from which attacks can be launched on British convoys...
...Father Joseph Sweeney tried to run the Jap blockade on a Chinese coaster with a vitally needed load of medicine for his leper colony. When two gunboats shelled the ship he slipped overboard and swam six hours before reaching shore. Now, despite the spread of the war, he is busy as ever among his lepers...
...Buffalo, there was still ten inches of ice on Lake Erie. In the bay at Marquette, on Lake Superior, there was still broken ice. But off Toledo there was no ice visible within 20 miles of shore, and the St. Clair River from Lake Huron was clear of ice as far as Algonac...