Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said the chairman of the Long Beach (Calif.) collection committee: "Next thing I expect to see is an aluminum leg." Next thing he saw was an aluminum leg, donated by a one-legged veteran of World...
Around Howlin' Mad to right & left, the landing party suddenly blossomed out of the dark, hunchbacked in packs, round-topped in steel helmets. Battalion officers rapped out orders for the landing party to switch its function, defend the beach. The receding rumble of boat engines told them that the Navy crews were going back for more men. Just ahead of General Smith one Navy coxswain, grounded on a bar, called for all the power his engines could give, wrenched the boat free. "God-damit," shouted Howlin' Mad, "he's tearing the guts out of that boat...
Along the beach the First Battalion set up its machine guns and mortars, disposed its riflemen. Just before dawn waves of beach boats began to rip through the surf. The First opened up with a chatter of blank-cartridge fire as two attacking battalions splashed through the shallows, made a dash for the cover of the dunes, dug in. It was around ten o'clock and everybody was sweating when Task Force 18 finally wound up its first landing party exercise...
...week soldiers joined Marines in a landing party of 1,500, this time took along light artillery. Landing with tanks and scout cars will come later. Before Task Force 18 can call itself completely trained, it will have to work with aircraft from carriers. For storming a beach head is the toughest operation in the soldier's book, and even cocky Marines know that against the modern, weapons of World War II it is no job to be run off without weeks and months of training...
Opening day was so hot (104°) that three contestants stripped to the waist in the middle of the round. But hotter than the weather was blond, sun-bronzed Jimmy Clark, a 20-year-old aircraft worker from Long Beach, Calif. He shuffled around Spokane's hilly, pine-fringed Indian Canyon golf course in 64 strokes, seven under par. Next day he shot 71 for a qualifying total...