Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beachhead will be established on the steps of the European fortress without the payment of a ghastly price. As I see it at the moment, Canada is all teed up for a sickening shock. ... I can say nothing more earnestly and sincerely than I say this: . . . away with petty politics, away with fatuous and useless wrangling...
From Femina Morta ("Dead Woman's Corner"), U.S. tanks and infantry on the Anzio front punched within two miles of the Appian Way. Along the whole beachhead front, attacks great & small flared up and died. The Allied forces were still stalled. But in the air, infantrymen saw some cheer...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...
...hide his light under a landing boat is burly, flamboyant Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr., president of Higgins Industries, Inc. of New Orleans. Among other things, Mr. Higgins produces a handsome, 21-ounce, 228-page magazine called the Eureka News Bulletin, to disseminate information about the beachhead craft he manufactures...
...bodies were strung like rags on the barbed wire around the American beachhead on Bougainville. In the torn jungle beyond, they lay like rotten fruit on the musty ground. While the attack was on-six futile assaults-the Japs had even sent their walking wounded back into action, to charge again. The Americans had mowed them down. At week's end the Japs were withdrawing, possibly to reorganize. In the month since the assault began they had lost 3,508 counted dead-20 for every American killed-and many more wiped , out in the jungle by artillery...