Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern France the Allied fist had struck deep into a surprisingly flabby belly. For weeks the Germans had seen the blow coming. Committed first to meeting the threat from the Normandy beachhead, they waited for the blow from the Mediterranean as if rooted in helpless fascination...
...jail for failing to register as a German agent, and one of the 28 who were in the sedition trial at Washington, died on March 24 in Italy. Viereck, who disagreed violently with his father's views, had gone through some of the heaviest fighting on the Anzio beachhead...
Tuesday morning the blow fell. Parachute and glider troops dropped down before dawn on German strongpoints inland. By sunrise a great Allied fleet of 800 ships was offshore battering coastal positions with its big guns while powerful air assault forces concentrated their bombs and bullets on the beachhead...
...least tactical surprise. It was several hours before the Germans announced the area where they had been struck-a 70-mile stretch of coast between Toulon and Cannes. Allied correspondents reported that the invasion army, chiefly of Americans but heavily sprinkled with French and British troops, made its first beachheads without great loss, grabbed its first objectives within an hour. In less than two hours, seven waves were ashore-perhaps 14,000 men-with many more still to come. The beachhead grew to 100 miles, from Nice to Marseilles...
...Alton W. Knappenberger, 20 years old, 120 lbs., who knocked off 60 Nazis on the Anzio beachhead, arrived practically broke in his home town, Spring Mount, Pa. Explained the Congressional medalist: "I saved up $150. .. . Then while I was in Naples a pickpocket took it all. The people there are pretty hard...