Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter was coming in the Baltic; the Red armies moved swiftly. Driving down the eastern shore of the Gulf of Riga, they crossed the Latvian border, freed the whole mainland of Estonia. In Tallinn, an ice-free port most of the year, work crews began repairs on the harbor installations, the power plant generators spun again, the government of a Soviet Socialist Republic reassembled...
...Overseas and in U.S. hospitals. In addition, the Navy maintains over 5,000 libraries on ships and shore bases, and the Army 1,500 libraries stocked with 15,000,000 volumes...
...should be quite a shore-leave. The Boston College-Harvard game (for free through the courtesy of both institutions) Saturday afternoon, the Middies dance, the Wellesley dance and McBride's in the evening...
Last week a battered old hulk was towed into Sturgeon Bay, Wis., to the din of saluting tugboat whistles and cheering throngs along the shore. The ugly hulk was the 600-ft. ore freighter George M. Humphrey, rusty red from 15 months under water. Her pilothouse had been crushed and her funnel twisted by the winter ice; the ripping current had torn off layers of paint, left her rail in tatters and smashed in the bulkheads. But to all of Sturgeon Bay (pop. 5,439) and especially to stocky, blue-eyed Captain John Roen, she was as worthy...
...picture opens in a magnificent wallow of amphtracks as they leave their LSTs and head for shore under fire. One is hit and helpless. A plane, too, goes down. These are the finest shots of this stage of battle which have yet been released. Those which follow, ashore, are hardly less fine, made very close to the ground as marines, heroic in size and movement on the screen, rush across the open beach against everything the Japanese can throw at them. A hit man stops short, falls wounded before the lens. The cutting-away from such bits is swift, perhaps...