Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Apennine spine of Italy scatters rough, irregular ribs in all directions. Rain-flooded rivers gouge the land. Perched on heights above the valley-bottom roads, the Germans could give ground slowly and at a stiff price. General Mark Clark's Fifth Army pried them from Mondragone, the western anchor of their line. General Bernard Montgomery's Eighth bit sharply toward Isernia, key to the enemy's center, and Vasto, his east coast anchor...
...Captured Smolensk, the northern anchor of the last major defense line available to the Wehrmacht in Russia. Once Hitler had his headquarters in this ancient walled city, and from here the Wehrmacht rumbled into its futile attack on Moscow in the winter of 1941. To take it, the Russians had to pierce a 40-mi. belt of defenses they described as "the strongest on the Eastern front." The fall of Smolensk turned the left wing of the German Dnieper line, marked a victory as important as that at Stalingrad...
Everything seemed to be going too smoothly. As soon as the anchor was down the boats of the first assault wave were away and circling in the water. It was the smoothest debarkation I had ever seen. It was too smooth...
...oldtimers who survived the test of this war. Like Popov, he headed an army in the Far East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said of him: "Let Konev play his own game under his own rules, and no German will ever get the better of him." Said Konev to his officers: "Make up your mind what...
Ahead of the Gripsholm lies a long, weary journey. Not until Oct. 15 will she cast anchor in the Zuary River, inside the hilly coastline of Goa in Portuguese India...