Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army, and the shaky Nazi back door. Last week Allied sea power, in the form of a flotilla of torpedo boats, raided Albanian waters, exchanged fire with shore batteries, sank two enemy merchantmen. Italy is a base of air attack on Germany -directly from airdromes in Italy, by shuttle to & from Great Britain...
...gunfire where the British were supposed to be attacking Salerno, and now & then a huge glare ripped apart the darkness, as if a ship were exploding out to sea. But before us all was quiet and dark. We broke our circle and headed in a column toward a shore, which we could not see but which still looked safe...
...came abreast of the Navy patrol vessel marking our line of departure, the assault waves bunched up and shells fell in among them. We needed no order. We broke column, went into a skirmish position and throbbed toward shore like so many racing boats, close together, with motors roaring and spray flying...
When U.S. troops were advancing on Salamaua a fortnight ago, Lieut. Colonel Archibald Roosevelt and a small party set off in a boat to make a reconnaissance tour of Salamaua harbor. Archie ordered the boat close in to the shore. Jap guns began firing. In the boat was Technician (5th grade) John Bertot, who later told the story...
...take a bulldozer to get through the scuttlebutt which has sprung up regarding billets. One story has it that the billets are already here--or at least the billet list--and that it is the finest group of billets ever offered to the School, also that sea and foreign shore billets comprise over 90% of the lot. The only way those rumors will ever be proved or disproved is to wait until the billet assignments are announced; and it is obvious that this announcement cannot come for several (are there enough left to add up to several?) weeks...