Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sunday afternoon. Lieut. Commander Thomas Burton Klakring had run his submarine smack up to Japan's shore. Klakring raised his periscope. There was a big seaside town, a race track and a race, which "the whole town" had turned out to see. Klakring & crew placed some bets, "but we were just a little too far away to be sure which horse won." Anyhow, they were there to provide more exciting diversion for the people of Japan...
...cargo ships and three small naval vessels. Away went the sub's torpedoes and down went two Jap merchantmen. Klakring let his crew take a look through the periscope at "this very pretty sight." When the other Jap ships, panic-stricken, turned and raced for the shore, Klakring surfaced and gave chase. He dogged one ship into a cove and plumped a torpedo into her middle. It was a lucky hit at long range. But, said Klakring, a soft-spoken Marylander, "If I had missed her I would have hit a large power plant on the water...
...naval auxiliaries, all firing at us. The battle . . . lasted an hour and a half, us in the middle of them all the time." Airplanes dropped depth bombs, which made a lot of noise but did no damage. This fight was also within sight of a staring audience on the shore, which inspired the mild Klakring and his crew. They sank a tanker and an armed freighter...
When Lieut. General Mark Clark was on his secret pre-invasion mission to North Africa, as is well known, he lost his pants. The small boat that was taking him off the shore capsized. The General had to shuck his trousers, which were weighted with $18,000 in gold, and swim ashore...
...second night we spent in the garden of a ruined dressing station along the shore in Matrûh. The Italians had left jars of salve, sulfanilamide, antiseptics, bandages and a big supply of drugs for treating gonorrhea. Though special toilets were built in the garden the Italians found the rooms of the villa more convenient...