Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walker went on to tell how General MacArthur got his first view of the Philippines-"a gun-rocked coast backed by rolling hills. He saw it from a cruiser standing in to shore an hour after the landings, sitting placidly on the flag bridge puffing his pipe...
...another award: the Congressional Medal of Honor. His citation: "Colonel Shoup fearlessly exposed himself to the terrific, relentless artillery, machine-gun and rifle fire . . . rallying his hesitant troops . . . gallantly led them across the fringing reefs ... to reinforce our hard-pressed, thinly held lines. Upon arrival at the shore he assumed command of all landed troops and, working without rest under constant, withering enemy fire during the next two days, conducted smashing attacks against unbelievably strong and fanatically defended Japanese positions...
...shore where the stiff white crosses mark a design for eternity, And the infantry of sleep is forever enrolled in silence, And the lives of men are but numbers, and an alien wind Comes up to the beaches, caressing The fallen sons of men of a distant country: Here, at last, the meaning and truth of freedom Opens, unsealed, before the eyes of the nations; . . . Here in the name of freedom all have been gathered Into the perfect union of purposes disunited- A brotherhood of men in the arms of death Who were never aware, in life, that they were...
Flanagan moved on shore aboard an amphibious tractor whose motor fouled the walkie-talkie, failed to cross an airfield on foot when mortar fire pinned the marines down. Later, carbine in hand, but walkie-talkie still functioning, he joined a group of marines flushing out a Jap pillbox...
...preliminaries, Halsey and the Third Fleet had whipped hard carrier strikes at Mindanao and the central Philippines, had twice struck at shipping and shore establishments in Manila Bay itself. Last week the Third Fleet swung north and the pattern became clear...