Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between 4 and 5 a.m. under a ringed half moon, with lightning stabbing the horizon, the American ships entered the narrow channel through Arawe's island screen. The wooded, sloping Jap shore lay silent, waiting...
...hour later, while Allied planes patrolled above and warships lobbed in shells from the sea, two Ducks (amphibious trucks) led the main landing on to Orange Beach. Armed with a newly installed weapon, the Ducks raked the shore, cleared a way for Buffaloes (amphibious tanks), then Alligators (amphibious, troop-carrying tractors...
Almost every day U.S. Army Liberators bombed the Marshalls; once they paid two visits between dawn and dusk. The big bombers pummeled Wot je's drome, tore up Taroa's runways, buildings and anchorage, damaged Jaluit's shore defenses, all secretly installed since the Japs took over this mandate from the unsuspecting League of Nations...
...tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...
Admiral Pownall's forces had still more business. From the Marshalls they headed for Nauru, the British phosphate island seized by the Japs in early 1942. There, Tarawa to Truk, the Jap Pearl Harbor, the American fleet, including battleships, shelled and bombed the enemy's airdrome and shore defenses. The score: ten Jap planes destroyed; two U.S. planes lost, one U.S. destroyer damaged by shore batteries...