Word: shores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kill. We opened fire with the 40 millimeters, our main-battery five-inchers and everything we had. When the smoke and spray had cleared away there they were, still boring right on in. Finally we forced three of the boats onto the beach and sent a shore party in to capture their crews. The fourth changed course and headed out to sea with throttles wide open. Since then there's been no messing around getting up to general quarters...
...midnight, in absolute silence, under chilly, low-hanging skies that blotted out the stars, the Mansfield cautiously worked in toward shore. On the destroyer's quarterdeck ten men-four marines, four bluejackets and two officers-checked their weapons and adjusted packs crammed with TNT. Some carried Tommy guns, others carbines. Each man had a knife dangling on his pistol belt. A few wore sneakers. The men shifted their feet uneasily as they watched a small whaleboat being lowered into the water...
...Pyongyang. British Firefly bombers and Seafire fighters (carrier version of Britain's famed Spitfire) struck from the carrier Triumph, hit similar targets farther to the south. Earlier, U.S.British naval units sank five or six attacking Communist torpedo boats off Samchok. At week's end a Red shore battery scored a hit on the British cruiser Jamaica. The toll: six dead, three wounded. They were the first British naval casualties of the Korean...
Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, 55, commander of U.S. naval forces in the Far East, has the cruiser Juneau and four destroyers. Tall, quiet Charles Joy is a gunnery expert who practiced the technique of shore bombardment at Guadalcanal, the Aleutians and Attu...
After a half hour, I took a rowboat to the south side of the river and found a large flat-bottomed skiff big enough to take our jeeps across. We had our troubles with the current but managed to get the skiff to the next shore and safety...