Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest. After that, he was due for the shore-based post now held by Aubrey Fitch: Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, little more than an administrative post-unless he got the new job which airmen hoped he would...
...months later the ist was ferried onto an enemy shore again-this time on Lingayen Gulf, where three years before the Japs had landed. The 1st's spectacular dash to Manila was only its first job on Luzon. It is still there, routing out Japs...
...best uniform and sword! Have the horses put to in my chariot!" bellowed Captain Sir Horatio Hornblower when the Admiralty summoned him back from shore leave. "It will take me away from you," he told his gorgeous wife Barbara (the future Duke of Wellington's sister). "Darling," she answered, "six months of the kind of happiness you have given me is more than any woman deserves." A few days later, Sir Horatio, flying a commodore's pendant, was beat ing up the Channel in the 900-man ship of the line Nonsuch, followed by two sloops, two bomb...
...recent years. He traveled on the Baltimore & Ohio from Washington to Phila delphia; from there his train went over the Reading to Bound Brook, N.J., where it traveled over the Jersey Central Lines to Jersey City, and on to Highland, N.Y., over the New York Central's West Shore Railroad...
...orgy of destruction was followed by an orgy of recrimination. Civilians blamed the military. Mayor Alan Butler complained that 4,000 sailors had been given shore leave the first day of the riot, another 4,000 had been turned loose the second day. Said the Halifax Star: the Navy's part in the riot was "disgraceful and despicable." Said Rear Admiral Leonard Warren Murray: "Civilians led the assault...