Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore; TIME...
...cruised with a task force looking for Japs, escorted convoys, dodged a second torpedo attack-this time from a submarine. She put in one busy day silencing shore batteries which had bracketed U.S. transports unloading at Guadalcanal. The Japs sent over bombers. The Helena got four of the nine shot down by the U.S. ships...
...Helena steamed on to her destiny. She pounded enemy airfields, troop areas, shore batteries. Down in her log went names now legendary: Munda, Vila, Kolombangara, Enogai Inlet, Bairoko Harbor. Finally came the Battle of Kula Gulf, a turning point which cost the Jap something between nine and eleven cruisers and destroyers. It cost the U.S. one ship: the Helena...
Above them the two Navy airships had collided and one had collapsed. Farther out, where no shore watcher could see, her control car and bag had tumbled crazily into the water. Only one enlisted man of her crew was rescued. The other airship, only superficially damaged, got safely back to the Lakehurst base...
Thank Your Lucky Stars (Eddie Cantor, Bette Davis, Dinah Shore, Ann Sheridan, Errol Flynn, Ida Lupino, John Garfield, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, some 39 other stars and starlets of the Warner galactic system; TIME...