Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guess Which, Oikawa. On the Bonin strike, Jap shore establishments caught it, too. From Muko Jima, 580 miles from Tokyo, all the way down the 80-mile chain, cruisers and destroyers thoroughly and thoughtfully shelled every Jap base that looked worthwhile...
...thought we had seen everything in the line of Jap military suicides by the time the last charge of the Japs had been beaten off. But we hadn't. Here was something different. During mopping-up operations a detachment of marines on amphibious tractors saw seven Japanese off-shore on a coral reef and drove out to get them. As the amphtracks approached, six of the Japs knelt down on the reef. Then the seventh, apparently an officer, drew a sword and began methodically to hack at the necks of his men. Four heads had rolled into...
...strong wave had washed up to the shore, and the boy floated out with it. At first, he lay on the water, face down, without moving. Then, apparently, a last, desperate instinct to live gripped him and he flailed his arms, thrashing the foam. It was too late. Just as suddenly, it was all over: the air-filled seat of his knee-length black trousers bobbed on the water for ten minutes. Then he disappeared...
Devastating barrages like those laid down at Cherbourg, Saipan and Guam have eaten deep into the Navy's store of bombardment ammunition: 41,000 tons of shells have been fired at Jap and German shore defenses alone-230 times the total used to win the Spanish-American war. The need for rockets, for both ships and planes, is increasing. There is also a deficit in 40-mm. antiaircraft guns and in the ammunition they shoot...
Mosquitoes and Shrews. As soon as they touched shore, clouds of mosquitoes descended on them, made their faces swell up like footballs. Years before, they were told, Alaskan Indians who captured white men simply tied their victims naked to trees, let the mosquitoes finish them. Once when Connie clapped her husband on the back she counted 100 squashed mosquitoes on her palm. They could understand why mosquitoes were considered "the most serious single obstacle . . . in the way of man's subjugation of the North...