Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scout bombers delivered the first blows at the Jap's main airdromes; torpedo planes followed them into his chief anchorages. Surface ships moved in on likely shore targets. From a Jap airdrome five bombers managed to take off, head for a carrier. A U.S. fighter set a Jap's engine afire...
General MacArthur continued to direct a defense that matched the Japanese attack in cunning. His line of communications between the Peninsula and Fort Corregidor remained open. His shore defense guns continued to blast Jap flanking attacks. His artillery counterfire from Manila Bay's forts, in his own terse words, "has been effective." His ack-ack guns and runty Air Force were deadly: last week they brought down 15 Japanese planes, including two dive-bombers that mistakenly strafed their own infantry (a regiment of General Akira Nara's 65th Division) with heavy casualties. His observation that the invaders were...
Blues in the Night (Jimmy Lunceford orchestra; 2 sides, Decca; and Dinah Shore, Bluebird). A song from the Warner Brothers movie of the same name which may start a trend back to the blues. Decca is betting that it is the most terrific item of its kind since St. Louis Blues. Three Decca discs of Blues in the Night have already sold 400,000 copies...
...results ("many enemy fleet auxiliaries were sunk, beached or otherwise damaged . . . many enemy airplanes were destroyed . . . installations on shore were hit hard. . . .") were not as spectacular as at Pearl Harbor, the technique of attack was more so. This was not just a carrier hit-&-run. Here, besides hitting the defender from the air, the attacker closed with his surface ships and shelled the enemy. And he did it without losing any ships, unlike the Japanese in similar attacks on Wake...
Only time in history before World War II that U.S. air, army and naval forces served under a unified command was on the North Carolina shore maneuvers last July, when Major General Holland McTyeire ("Howlin' Mad") Smith of the Marines commanded task forces of the Marines and the Army under the over-all supervision of Admiral Ernest Joseph King...