Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marines landed on Iwo, the first invasion shots reached the U.S. They had been flown by Navy plane to Guam, sent by radio to San Francisco. News traveled even quicker, thanks to a radio transmitter which the Navy had installed on a warship a mile off the Iwo shore. Each day U.S. readers and radio listeners thus got the direct reports of newsmen on the scene...
Peorias in the Pacific. To keep its fleets operating across 3,000 miles of ocean in one direction, 7,000 miles in another, the civilian Navy has set up 900 shore establishments, including 300 advance bases, some as large as Peoria, Ill. Problems of logistics are vast. Equipment for the base at Kwajalein was ordered 17 months before the island was actually taken from the Japs. By the time the Kwajalein units were under way, preparations had begun for bases in the Marianas...
Meanwhile, landing craft from Mariveles nosed around Corregidor to the south shore. As the assault waves charged up the beach of San José Bay, the Japs were trapped between airborne and seaborne forces. Jap resistance was as tough as usual, but there were not enough Japs to stem the rush...
...summer of 1928. Last summer it had 650 full-time pupils, two-thirds from high schools and one-third from the University of Michigan. Of the faculty of 50, half are members of symphony orchestras and hold union cards. The school consists of a camp for boys, on the shore of Lake Wahbekaness, and another for girls, a half mile away on Lake Wahbekanetta. Sunday concerts draw large audiences from northern Michigan...
...duty. The others were good-natured but persistent. They began to "molest" the SPARS. What the U.S. sailors did about it was not reported. But a civilian forcibly restrained a Canadian sailor from "molesting" a SPAR. At last the tug's skipper turned around and raced for shore...