Word: shore
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...summer of 1919, Captain Barker was appointed inspector at the Naval Academy. From 1922 to 1925 he was aide to the Commander of Destroyer Squadrons, which operated in the Atlantic and later in the Pacific. After this, Captain Barker spent two years on shore duty followed by two years in command of the destroyer-minelayer "Mahan...
...Arms (Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore; TIME, March...
Marines. Across the sea some 300 miles, on New Guinea's northern shore, Brigadier General William Rupertus and his 1st Marine Division had been fighting their way in the direction of Rabaul. It was a slow pace. Last week they speeded it up, jumped overwater to a new objective: the airfield and town of Talasea on the Willaumez Peninsula, 170 miles from Rabaul...
Soon Admiral Kinkaid's PT boats will be using Talasea harbor as a base. Meanwhile Kinkaid's navy, composed mostly of small craft, roams the Bismarck Sea at will, bears down with flaming guns to silence Jap shore batteries. Even PTs serve prominently in such activities. MacArthur described them as "shelling" several Jap positions. Observers of the heightening South Pacific war concluded that heavier weapons have been added to the PTs' cluster of 50-caliber guns to help exploit the advantages and widening opportunities of the Bismarck...
...days of continuous air attack at Malta she was pierced with some 2,000 bomb fragments; her admiring crew promptly dubbed her "H.M.S. Pepperpot." After the worst holes were plugged with planks, they added another: "H.M.S. Porcupine." While she was alongside a Malta dock, bomb hits on shore threw so much debris around her decks that for a time she became "H.M.S. Rockgarden...