Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the sandy shore and the swamp beyond, artillery flamed. A U.S. gunner named Johnny Jones plunked two 75-mm. shells into a transport at the water line. It sank. Other transports were sunk by artillerymen working under fire from Jap destroyers and a cruiser or two. Barges loaded with Jap soldiers were battered into bloody, waterlogged messes. But farther up the shore the Japs got ashore and moved down, attacking the defenders as more invaders landed behind them...
...Sundowner: an officer who insists his men return from shore leave at sundown...
...that the major drive had begun. General Douglas MacArthur had long anticipated a heavy attack at Lingayen. An earlier thrust, in which the Japanese tried to put down troops from 154 motorboats, had been beaten off by a Philippine division which did not let a single Jap soldier reach shore alive. But more attempts were bound to come...
...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...
...Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. It had been carpentered during a rehearsal of Cantor's show. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...