Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week we put in our preference lists of billets, which presented quite a problem. One of our classmates was undecided between requesting U. S. shore duty or a destroyer. We finally agreed to put it to a coin-fipping test, heads for shore duty, tails for destroyer. It took him four flips before heads came up! Another one of our friends requested destroyer duty and felt happy about it until he saw that picture of a pitching lincan at Potter this week. He's been scasick ever since...
...destroyer, bombarding the shore of northern Bougainville, sank a PT boat that strayed into its field of fire...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...Arms (Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore; TIME, March...
...Arms (Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore; TIME, March...