Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They threw heavy, sudden attacks around the rim of the beachhead, probing for a soft spot, using tanks and assault guns as mobile artillery. Where they found the going reasonably good they poured on the pressure ruthlessly. From the beachhead, N.Y. Herald Tribune Correspondent Homer Bigart radioed...
...week's end the German attack slackened a little. Mud and weariness had taken their toll. Troops who had battered at each other almost without pause for two weeks got a breathing spell. The greatest assault yet had been beaten off. But no man in the beachhead doubted for a moment that there would be more...
Kwajalein, key to the Marshalls, was secure in U.S. hands. The second amphibious attack on Central Pacific atolls had been successful far beyond the first heroic but costly assault on Tarawa and Makin. As they were learning through experience about other phases of war, U.S. forces were improving their amphibious operation. Kwajalein's casualty list was only about half as large as Tarawa...
Three days after the Kwajalein Island assault, the Army's 7th Division had driven the enemy into the northern corner. For the final mop-up, TIME Correspondent William Chickering joined a tank crew, radioed this tank's-eye-view account...
Tarawa had shown the high price of frontal assault. This time the Army troops landed first on Kwajalein's flank, on the islet of Gea (which they mistook in the dark for Ninni). They dragged their artillery through the water with them. Then they crossed to Ninni, Ennylabegan and Enubuj...