Word: darknesse
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"... Those copies of TIME have been invaluable. Not long ago, I found I had moved out to my observation post and had left the latest copy in the pillbox. You see I had been going out there under cover of darkness because it was a pretty risky run in daylight...
Two or three days before the battle, U.S. submarines in the South China Sea surfaced in darkness and radioed what they had seen: major Jap fleet units advancing northeast from Singapore. Then the subs went to work, sank two Atago-class heavy cruisers and heavily damaged a third.
Ambush. The Japs' southernmost fleet suffered least from U.S. aerial pounding during its approach, and reached the scene of battle first. The first-quarter moon had set early, and the morning darkness was deep in Surigao Strait. At the southern end, squadrons of PT boats lay in ambush. As...
Four weeks ago, canny Giovanni Vis-conti-Venosta, Premier Bonomi's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally...
Uncertainty is the quality that most distinguishes a battle from any other kind of activity. It is also the most harrowing agony a soldier can endure. Belden believes that the U.S. soldier is the best trained he has ever seen, "but no one seems to have taken the proper trouble...