Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anzio: the Pawns. The little town leaned down to the harbor in a frozen cascade of wreckage. German shells still battered it and geysered around busy harbor craft shuttling between ships and shore. Soldiers lived in holes in the ground, making the best of a poor situation. Items...
...initiative would not be theirs. When the Allies came, they would almost certainly land at many points, almost certainly make a selection later of the softest spots to develop their thrust inland. Some of the German troops would fight it out on the shore...
...only Allied casualty was one plane knocked down offshore. To rescue its American pilot-Lieut, (j.g.) Dale Christian Klahn of Laramie, Wyo.-twelve Hellcats swarmed over a nearby Japanese destroyer, pounded warming-up Jap planes on land bases. A British submarine went to the rescue. It surfaced under shore-battery range, coolly scooped up Klahn and submerged while 6-in. shells laced the water around the conning tower. For the Japanese it must have seemed a harebrained performance to salvage one expendable...
There was conviction in President Robert Maynard Hutchins' voice last winter as he addressed these words to his University of Chicago faculty. The well-dined faculty drifted home from the comfortable South Shore Country Club to the Midway, deep in thought. They kept thinking for three months while the speech remained off the record, a University matter. Last week it was clear that Hutchins' words had started a sizable rebellion in his faculty...
This coming shore leave promises to be a big one. Indications point for a capacity crowd at the Regimental Informal at the Statler on Saturday. Hank Cornelius promises to be on hand, even if it means forgetting his vow to solve the Wopeco Co. case...