Word: beachhead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Target. Early reports indicated that the fight was going slowly against fanatical resistance. After making the beachhead, U.S. amphibious troops had given some ground before fierce Jap counterattacks, but they hung on. By the third day they were ready to press forward...
Goebbels Gobble. The German reaction was equally characteristic. If the new weapon was of no use to Rommel on the beachhead, it was a godsend to Goebbels on the radio...
From the Allied beachhead, TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker cabled a coolly realistic account of Normandy and the Normans...
General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of Allied Ground Forces in the European Theater, put in a full week fighting and entertaining on the Normandy beachhead. Jaunty Monty's guests included...
Back from the Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green. Most of them were Germans but a surprising proportion was not. With the Aryan supermen came a polyglot sprinkling of at least 12 nationalities. Some of the slave peoples, it seemed, could be persuaded to fight for the Herrenvolk...