Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While the Jap was looking the other way, an amphibious U.S. force steamed by moonlight around Jap-held Kolombangara, landed at dawn on Vella Lavella's south eastern shore. Captured were some 350 surprised Nips, an unheard-of number of prisoners in the South Pacific. Other Japs fled into the jungle...
Also in the semi-finals are Robert Hunker, who best John Zinsser, 7-5, 1-6, 6-0, F. M. Shore, who won over Richard Wolfard, 6-1, 6-2, and Thomas Mann who overcame Bruce Cameron...
...remaining in the tournament are in the Navy. Mann and Shore are officers in the Naval Training Schools, Hunker an officer in the Navy Supply Corps School, and Lynch...
...first page is as fine an example of forced humor as we have seen for some time: "Disbursing Ashore or a "Wave" Rocks the Ordnance Laboratory (with some mention of the accounting)." The real humor of the situation lies in the fact that many of us may get shore billets and run into the "Wave" situation...
...British forces knifing up the shorelines. But at week's end the remnants were fleeing. On the north coast a second amphibious flanking movement of the Americans cracked their line at Capo d'Orlando and opened up a downhill road to Messina. On the east shore the British pushed up past Riposto, past Taormina, to within artillery range of Italy itself. On neither front was any major contact made with German forces-the speed of the Allied advance was hindered only by mines and demolitions...