Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worst problem for the Germans was Partisan control of much of the Dalmatian coast, which offered a ready-made beachhead to Allied forces in Italy. Best break for the Germans was the persistent fighting between the Partisans of Tito and the Chetniks of General Mihailovich...
...white.") And when our Marines landed on Bougainville itself November 1, Chickering was once again on the job-watched from the bridge of his transport as our men swarmed ashore ("They made you proud to be an American")-was permitted to join them right after they had won their beachhead...
Just after the first landings on Bougainville, a task force apparently consisting of four cruisers and eight destroyers swept down toward the beachhead. About 40 miles from the landing point, the Japs met a roughly equal U.S. force. The Japanese kept the U.S. force at arm's length by clever use of flares and torpedoes. But the fire control and aiming devices of the U.S. ships were superior. At extreme range, they were able to sink one cruiser and two destroyers for sure (admitted by Japan) and probably two more destroyers (claimed by the U.S.). Announced U.S. loss...
...slamming shells at the San Francisco, which had tangled with a Jap battleship and taken the salvo which killed Rear Admiral Daniel J. Callaghan and her skipper, Medal-of-Honorman Cassin Young. The Helena sank the cruiser and a destroyer, shot up three other Jap ships. The U.S. beachhead in the Solomons was finally secure...
...been to gain "command of the seas" but to transport troops and protect the Imperial Army's supply lines. Mr. Kiralfy suggests that this goes back to Japan's origins, the Japs being a nation of "island-hoppers" who surged up from the south and established "beachheads" on what is now called Japan. In 1592, Hideyoshi, founder of the navy, used his ships to land troops in Korea, to victual their beachheads. In 1904-05, Togo aimed to reinforce the Jap beachhead in Manchuria; his brilliant destruction of the Russian fleet was incidental to the main strategy. Similarly...