Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once seemed. The fleet had repair and refueling craft now in such numbers that carrier task forces and even amphibious forces could range farther than they ever did before. Newly seized harbors like the vast lagoon at Kwajalein can be used to some extent as advanced bases long before shore installations are built...
...Shore-based personnel in the U.S. and in scores of far-flung bases accounts for another big chunk of Navy strength, the Marines total over 400,000 and the number of men actually afloat in warcraft is more than...
...other lean, thin-skinned cans, manned by youngsters fresh from colleges and high schools, screened the big ships, fought submarines, covered landings, popped Jap planes out of the coppery skies, blasted shore installations with their 5-in. rifles...
...days later the O'Bannon was one of a small force which steamed boldly up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to rescue Helena survivors who were hiding there in the jungles. Two months later off the same shore, she and her sister the Chevalier and the smaller Selfridge met and engaged a force of nine Jap ships, sank three of them and put the rest to rout. The Chevalier, torpedoed, sank. The lucky and valiant O'Bannon survived to win her Presidential citation...
...Arms (Danny Kaye, Dinah Shore; TIME, March...