Word: surf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Knights of Malta. Largest of the five diminutive islands which cluster near the Sicilian Channel, flounder-shaped Malta is about 17 miles long, little more than nine miles wide. Steep cliffs rise out of the surf on her south shore; on her north, rocky boulders tumble into...
...codfish schooner, heavily convoyed by naval craft, waddled up to one of the treeless humps which stick out of the northern sea, emptied men and materiel into lighters and landing boats. Under command of 41-year-old Florida-born Brigadier General Eugene M. Landrum they rolled shoreward through the surf. Caught by surprise or too harassed to do anything about it, the Japanese did not raise a finger. Ten days later U.S. engineers had built an airdrome big enough to accommodate air transports. Fighting planes were taking off from it and escorting bombers westward...
...night of August 17, when the Marines landed on Makin Island, was dark and rainy. The surf was high. Captain James N. M. Davis of Evanston, Ill. lost his pants in the waves. Major James Roosevelt of Washington, second in command to Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, cut his left index finger on a piece of coral. But the Marines, their faces and hands daubed green to blend with the foliage, all got ashore...
...thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island where the mutineers of the Bounty had settled. Until World War II, a representative of the British High Commission for the Western Pacific had visited lonely Pitcairn less than once a year.. When Native Lands Commissioner Henry Evans Maude hopped ashore on Pitcairn two years ago, he knew that his would probably be the last official visit for the war's duration. He found that government records...
While Pitcairn won a constitution, it lost a relic. Fretted by constant surf, sand in the shallows of Bounty Bay finally bared the Bounty's battered rudder. Promptly the British Admiralty claimed it, had it transferred to Fiji. The Navy had not forgotten...