Word: guardedness
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Then came the surprise. The extent of military installations and the strength of the Australian holding force in Milne Bay had been a closely guarded military secret. It was a secret no longer. From their ambush, Australian combat forces under veteran Major General Cyril Clowes fell on the invaders, drove...
They ran to a Coast Guard base, panted out their story. Coastguardsmen followed them to the tent. This time it was guarded by a husky teen-aged German-talking youth, who charged at "Neddie" Collins with a bayonet, ran smack into a Coast Guard fist. As Neddie and his pal...
At 10:36 most classes were adjourned and students in the Yard sought safety in Widener, Memorial Chapel, or the Houses. Widener, because of its crowded condition, went into action at the first alarm. A mass of students gathered in the basement corridors and the great steel and glass doors...
Probable carriers of these token shipments were lone ships which could steam some 16,000 miles around Cape Horn without refueling. Stealing secretly out of guarded ports, with radios silenced, a few such hermit ships had a fair chance of avoiding U.S. or British trade-route patrols. But what they...
The Attack. At 6 o'clock that June morning, 15 carrier-based bombers swept over Dutch Harbor and nearby Fort Mears for 20 minutes, smashing and setting fire to barracks and warehouses. Expecting the attack, shore batteries and ship anti-aircraft guns opened up five minutes before the first...