Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solid rock on Old Baldy. When a battalion was ordered forward across the flats, the enemy opened up with machine guns and mortars. The men walked through a place where the Germans knew they would have to go. The survivors moved against Baldy. E and K Companies got 200 yd. up the hill and hid in the rocks. L Company tried...
Each of the twin-engined enemy fighters seemed to carry four rocket-guns which were fired at a 2,000-yd. range, well beyond the effective range of the bomber's heavy machine guns. Peaslee added: "For the first 200 yards the rockets left a trail of smoke and appeared to be gaining momentum. When they exploded, they were twice as big as any flak, and I've seen plenty of flak...
...defenses right onto our beach. Trees, brush and all obstacles were cut down so as to obtain a clear field of fire. Nothing was left to chance. Machine guns fired only in certain zones; the zones interlocked. Almost on the water's edge, in some cases only 50 yd. apart, machine guns were set up facing the sea. Fifty yards from the beach four-barreled machine guns threatened death to anyone coming out of the boats. Behind these were mortars. Only 200 yd. from the beach 88s were employed...
Head & Heart. This tearing trip-about 250 camp and hospital shows in eleven weeks-was no floodlighted 100-yd. dash, but just a fast lap in a very long race. In 1941 Hope got an Oscar "for humanity," for a record-breaking 562 benefits in two years. Probably the first entertainer to work with the armed forces, Hope has also been the most frequent. Using trains, cars, trucks, tanks, jeeps, Hope has played in virtually every U.S. camp, last fall hopped off with his USO team (Singer Frances Langford, Guitarist Tony Romano, Comic Jerry Colonna) to tour Alaska. When...
...yd. her lookouts spotted a submarine's twin periscopes sticking up. Skipper Cornell ordered a depth-charge attack. One charge exploded close to the hull, forcing the Jap to the surface. The Little Fellow heeled around sharply in a 180-degree turn, churned up to 19 knots and rammerd the sub amidships...