Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camotes Sea, had been completed. Almost a hundred craft under Rear Admiral Arthur Dewey Struble, a Normandy veteran, lay off shore. At 6:30 the destroyers opened up on the beaches with 5-inch guns; after 20 minutes, LCIs carrying rocket launchers belched their loads onto a 1,200-yd. beachhead. At 7:07 (because General Bruce likes sevens for his 77th), the first troops sloshed up the beaches, without a casualty. Most of the Japs had been sucked into the interior; the rest had been dazed by the barrage, although this strip of beach which might decide the entire...
...meter and 1,500-meterfree-style championships. But she also defeated National Champion Brenda Helser of Portland, Ore. in the 100-meter sprint. Already it was being said that Ann Curtis, first U.S. girl to break a world record in 15 years (she has broken both the 880-yd. and 800-meter free style), is the greatest freestyler ever developed in the U.S.-perhaps anywhere. She is classed with Helen Madison, Katherine Rawls, and has not yet reached her peak...
Each day for the past four years the pretty 6 ft. 160-pounder, who learned her swimming at the Crystal Plunge Club, has done from two to four miles in the water. When she stepped to the pool's edge for the Pacific 880-yd. championship last month, the announcer predicted a new U.S. record. Then a soldier emerged from the crowd, handed Ann Curtis a florist's box and grinned. Said he: "Forget the American record. Go for the world's record." So she lowered by seven and a half seconds the world mark...
...fastest schoolboy in the nation won his 40th straight race last week. For the third year in a row he won both the 100-and 220-yd. dashes in the Texas State meet. Last year he ran 100 yards just one-tenth of a second slower than the world record...
...Dieppe - Allied testing ground in 1942 when Commandos landed on good beaches but could not get their men and tanks past overpowering German defense. It has a 1,700-yd. beach, blocked by a formidable barrier of cliff...