Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had tried to evacuate the prisoners by boat to Italy, but our planes-and there were hundreds of them over us at all times-bombed them no end till the vessels' seams split and the German crew surrendered to the prisoners. The lieutenant colonel had the crew beach the boat at Tunis and actually he was the first American to be in Tunis as he waited for the British to come...
...LCTs (Landing Craft, Tanks), smallest of the ships which reached Sicily's shores under their own power. LCIs (Landing Craft, Infantry) came next, carrying nearly 200 men apiece. And finally came huge LSTs (Landing Ships, Tanks), which can carry a tremendous cargo. They were hauled forward to the beach by "ducks"-two-and-a-half-ton amphibious trucks...
Burly, silent, broody Jack Belden (TIME & LIFE) boiled on to the beaches near Gela with an amphibian force and, when the front line had been moved far enough inland, sat down at a headquarters shack to bat out some copy. German tanks were lobbing shells overhead against landing craft on the beach. An officer hurried in: "Tanks are two miles from headquarters! What's the use of writing a story when you may be captured in a few minutes...
...surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...
Vaguely they realized that two other men were on the beach. They stumbled over. McClure was cut, dazed and groaning. Clever was on his hands and knees with his head hanging down between his arms, the water coming in a few inches above his knees. They could hear the sound of his blood falling into the water. Then Thatcher walked up out of the sea. They were together, the five of them...