Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This kind of fighting wrenched the jungle from the Jap, slowly enlarged the Empress Augusta Bay beachhead. Now, after six weeks of fighting, it runs roughly 10,000 yards along the shore, 8,000 yards inland. Last week came the announcement that U.S. engineers had completed a runway within the beachhead. The Allied command could now count on better fighter cover for air and sea attacks on Rabaul, the Jap Southwest Pacific strongpoint...
...fire barrage laid down by planes dropping Molotov-cocktail mixture (gasoline and pitch) and incendiaries that would burn off the whole top of a small island or incinerate its occupants. Naval gunfire might be heavier, but there were limitations on the amount of shells warships could expend on shore fortifications and still be ready to take on an enemy fleet...
...Aussies, moving slowly over a peninsula as big as Connecticut, had support from Allied air and sea arms. The New Britain shore nearest New Guinea took a sustained bombing. Madang, the feeder base for the Jap Huon line and 200 miles up the coast from Finschhaven, took a night shelling from U.S. warships. Gasmata, a New Britain stronghold, got a similar dose of gunfire. In both actions, U.S. vessels penetrated waters that had been Jap preserves since early 1942, had seldom smelled the powder of the U.S. Navy...
Married. Frances Rose Shore (synco-patress "Dinah Shore"), 26; and Signal Corps Corporal George Montgomery, 27, peacetime cinemactor (Bomber's Moon), onetime Montana cowboy; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...officers (ensigns through commanders) there are plenty of civilians. A ratio of three or four reservists to one regular is the usual thing in the wardrooms of the Navy's fast-growing fleet. Reservists with special talents - engineers, lawyers, construction men, even recreation men - have also won good shore-based jobs...