Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Patrolling offshore were U.S. battleships, cruisers and destroyers-the greatest fleet ever assembled in the Pacific, Honolulu said-lazily hurling explosives against enemy defense positions and shore installations. The fleet included a tremendous carrier striking force...
...lunged for the shore as nervous as bulls entering the bullring," he later cabled the Chief of our News Bureau. "It was still an unhealthy area, and intermittently all day we were scurrying for cover as grenades burst a jew paces away or a stream of bullets parted the leaves overhead. About noon word was passed to prepare for a bombing attack. We dived for cover and I found myself waist-deep in water in a swampy pit. Whenever we took cover Jap snipers popped out and bullets would whine through our entire area. About three o'clock there...
...Lebanon, the tiny Arab state and French Mandate on the Mediterranean's eastern shore, the United Nations came up hard against two complex, trouble-packed problems: the demands of Arab peoples for political freedom, and the clash of Western imperialisms in the strategic region of Suez and the Persian Gulf...
...Buccaneers. Skipper of the Flying Fish is slim, quiet Commander Glynn Robert Donaho of Normangee, Tex. He remembers when the Flying Fish ran into an enemy task force close to shore. He scored hits on one ship and was taking a setup on a second when an aircraft bomb dropped close aboard. Things got so hot afterwards that one of the crew broke out all the candy in the stores, declaring, "We might as well eat it up now, we may never have another chance." But the Flying Fish survived, sank or damaged 100,000 tons of enemy shipping...
...boat jolted against the pebbly shore. The nose clanked down. Men sucked in their breaths and shouldered forward...