Word: beachhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beachhead Consolidated. At 5 p.m. he was three blocks away in the Los Angeles Republican headquarters in the Spring Arcade Building. It took him ten minutes to get through the milling throng that jammed the corridor before the entrance. Once inside, he bounded onto a desk and spoke: "When I was here the last time in 1941, I had come to speak about something close to my heart. I wanted to convince you that we must give aid to England in our common fight against Hitler. At that time many of my own party members carried placards outside...
...with a U.S. regiment in that sector. Many of its officers and men were Oklahomans. The regiment was one of several units ordered to march inland, seize high ground commanding a key bridge on the Sele and forestall what finally happened-the German thrust which almost split the beachhead. Said the regiment's Colonel, explaining the orders to his battalion officers: "It's pretty far inland and we don't know exactly what the enemy's got in that area. But it must be urgent to get that high ground, or we wouldn...
...Sept. 9, the Fifth Army landed 175 mi. north of the nearest Eighth Army troops. As the first man ashore discovered, they landed exactly where the Germans expected them to land (see p. 28). Many British and American soldiers were killed. At the center of the 24-mi. beachhead, on the fifth day, the Germans drove within three miles of the sea, almost severing the invasion forces. Great heroism, strong naval and air support and reinforcements saved the landings. Ten days after the landings, three days after the crisis on the beaches had passed, the Eighth Army was arriving...
...Italy. The night was clear and starry. Across the Straight of Messina, only two to twelve miles wide, the men in the boats could see the rocky outline of the Calabrian peninsula. Dawn was touching the sky and the shore when the first invaders landed on the chosen beachhead, a ten-mile strip of destiny around the port of Reggio Calabria...
Bataan to Vittoria. I.N.S.'s ace, steady Clark Lee, who covered Bataan and the Solomons for A.P., went in with an amphibian task force. When the beachhead was made, he joined seven U.S. soldiers in two jeeps and entered Vittoria. They were somewhat premature. Two German armored cars surprised the Americans in a garage. Lee led his party out the back way. The armored cars caught up with them and killed a sergeant, but Lee and the rest finally made the U.S. lines...