Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train leaves South Station Sunday morning at 8 o'clock and returns twelve hours later. This train ride takes you 72 miles down through the historical south shore of Massachusetts past Plymouth, across the Cape Cod Canal at Buzzards Bay, and finally to Woods Hole on the southern neck of the Cape, jutting out into Vineyard Sound...
...Shore to Shore. From newly secured Saipan the weary survivors of the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions, under their new corps commander, Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC, effected the first shore-to-shore amphibious movement of the Central Pacific offensive. In landing craft, under an umbrella of shells, they swarmed across two-and-a-half-mile Saipan Channel, quickly established two beachheads on Tinian. The island, less mountainous than Saipan or Guam, has no harbor. Its principal value would be to furnish more airstrips. The one built by the Japs had long been neutralized by artillery firing from Saipan...
Hospital ships get first priority on everything. Because of this, some shore hospitals' doctors are likely to growl when the hospital ships come around. The Japs sank the Australian hospital ship Centaur last year. But Captain Bennett believes that was a mistake and that hospital ships are relatively safe. After all, the Japs have registered more than 20 hospital ships themselves...
...watched for a while as the wounded were brought up the gangway from the amphibious ducks which had evacuated them from shore. The first patient, a soldier, had been wounded in the back and arm by mortar fragments. Dr. Beck examined his tag and pried under his bandages. "Put him in Surgical One Lower," said the doctor. The bearers lifted him gingerly and walked up the stairway...
...this last weekend most of us have had a chance to locate in Boston what we think are the desirable places to spend a shore leave. From the Statler ballroom to the Raymore, Boston people have noticed a new element smoothly moving into their midst. Some had difficulty in identifying us. Warren Sheard was accosted with "Are you in the Army, young man?", at which it is said he pulled the string and got the car. Little wonder...