Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perhaps the Japs would think he was going to Vigan. But in the night he turned back. The sea approaches to Lingayen Gulf had been scantily mined. With little difficulty, his ships reached their bombardment runs and opened fire with everything from 5-inch to 16-inch guns. Jap shore batteries on Santiago Island answered briefly and were soon put out of action. Jap aircraft attacked, again for three hours...
...during the fall of the same year that Comdr. Tully went to the destroyer U.S.S. Norman Scott as Executive Officer. Having completed missions in the invasion of Saipan and Guam, the Scott was covering the landings on Tinian when Jap shore batteries scored hits with six 6-inch shells...
...during the Atlantic crossing, Gimpel and Colepaugh wore naval uniforms in the event of possible capture, changed to civilian clothes with U.S. labels at the last moment. The U-boat, which ran seven miles up the Bay from the Atlantic, surfaced 300 yards from shore, cloaked by snow and darkness, and two of her sailors paddled the spies ashore in a rubber boat...
Anxious Haligonians, who from shore had watched the billows of smoke and the swords of flame leap from the Volunteer, knew-some of them could even remember-what Halifax had missed. In December 1917 another munitions ship, the Mont Blanc, had caught fire in their harbor. In one monstrous moment, 4,000 tons of TNT exploded...
Superfortresses flying from China and Saipan opened the battle for Japan during the last half of 1944, long before Allied troops could land on the enemy shore. But there was no overconfidence this time, as there had been when the strategic bombing of Germany began. There was no talk of winning the war in the Orient with air power alone...