Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Days before, Douglas MacArthur knew what he had to do. The naval base at Cavite, on the south shore of the harbor, had already been abandoned, its stores removed or destroyed. Admiral Tommy Hart had snaked his ships out and away to the open sea. The Army was disposed in a crescent about Manila with its right flank in the narrow neck south of the town, its left sweeping north and westward into the Bataan peninsula...
...guns are silenced, until the troops are bombed out of galleries bored through solid rock in the rearing head of the tadpole, the Jap can never hope to sail his ships into Manila Bay. For south of Corregidor it is only seven miles to the other shore of the harbor's mouth...
...Davao, on the south shore of Mindanao, Lieut. Colonel Roger Hilsman and his small force still fought the invader. But it was a losing fight, a small-scale replica of the great battle of Luzon. Unless help should come, all the Philippines' defenders could hope for was the bitter, bloody price of a last-ditch fight. It would not be in vain. As long as the Philippines held out, the Jap could not exert his full force on the vital fortress of Singapore...
Japanese artillery lined the mainland shore, pumped streams of shell into island positions. One by one British batteries went silent, British searchlights winked out. In the first eight days 45 air raids pocked British positions with terrifying accuracy. On Dec. 18 the Japanese burst across to the island itself. The British fought on. As food, water and ammunition ran short, they charged Japanese positions to certain death from machine guns. The Japanese established themselves in the eastern corner of the island, pressed on. Soon they held three of Hong Kong's reservoirs. Under their bombardments the island...
...Japanese attacks were sufficiently audacious and ruthless. One submarine donned a false superstructure, disguising itself as a fishing vessel. Others surfaced so close to shore that their attacks were clearly visible to watchers on land...