Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago the Navy was a purely aquatic creature with only a casual interest in the landing of men from ships upon an alien shore; the study of amphibious war was largely left to the Marines. But two years ago, confronted with an amphibious enemy and the problems of waging a war thousands of miles from Pearl Harbor, the Navy stirred. "Terrible" Turner, who wears the wings of a Naval aviator, was hurried off to the Solomons to assemble amphibious forces...
...fleet had been added strange, unheard-of craft which opened their mouths like Jonah's whale to spew trucks, howitzers, Marines, Seabees, infantrymen, seagoing tanks, onto beaches. To naval warfare had been added a whole new book of "standard procedures" covering the hazardous, complicated job of ship-to-shore ferrying. The "beach master" who stood on shore directing the weird traffic assumed as much importance as the master of a ship...
Henry, aboard his destroyer in the same engagement, stood in to Tarawa's lagoon firing at almost point-blank range on Jap shore batteries. Direct hits on his ship did not discourage Henry, who blazed away with even more enthusiasm...
...Nobel, Ont., on the rocky shore of crisply blue Georgian Bay, one of the largest explosives plants in the British Empire -the Canadian Industries Ltd. factory-was closing down. Last week 300 of its 2,236 workers were laid...
...Germans grew increasingly jittery about Allied designs on the mountainous shore of the Adriatic, just across from Italy. Axis-controlled Zagreb sent out a feeler. It reported Allied landings in force on the Yugoslav shore, where the Second German Tank Army keeps spotty guard. The report was wrong only in its exaggeration of the force: parties of officers and specialists had been landed to help the Partisans of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz...