Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold steel flashed and the enemy was hurled back. U.S. tanks which had rumbled into the battle, formed up and slashed two miles into the German's positions. The beachhead looked sounder than it had for days...
...winner came from three months in Italy as an ammunition carrier with a heavy-weapons company. After the fight he was sent immediately to the Anzio beachhead. With him went the gold belt for the amateur heavyweight class...
...Anzio beachhead last week the U.S. and Allied press won a minor counterattack but they were losing a major battle against brass-buttoned censorship. The Army had served notice that it could make correspondents hew to the official line of what is good and what is bad battle news...
Brass Hats. The Anzio press corps fought an extraordinarily hot engagement (punctuated by a bombing alert) against General Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander, who accused the correspondents of "blowing hot and cold" in their reports of the month-long beachhead battle. The doughty commander of Allied armies in Italy charged the newsmen with "alarming the people" by switching from overoptimism to overpessimism, was "very disappointed that you should put out such rot." Day before, as a penalty for "such rot," his staff had cut the correspondents' use of the beachhead's radio to Naples, by which the Allied press...
...newsmen told the General that no beachhead reporter had been responsible for the confusions over Anzio. Correspondents had conscientiously written what they had seen and what they had been told of the battle. They reminded the General: 1) that a BBC broadcast, day after the Jan. 22 landings, had been responsible for too much cheer by reporting that "Alexander's brave troops are pushing towards Rome . . . should reach it within 48 hours"; 2) that the subsequent gloom, when the German counterattack was conscientiously reported, had not been helped by official statements at home. Up spoke the Chicago Daily News...