Word: beachhead
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...armored attack. Walton Walker's career under Patton did not begin until 48 days after Dday. The Normandy invasion had been preceded by tremendous planning and mountainous buildup; Walker's XX Corps (and the rest of Patton's Third Army) was held in England until the beachhead was soundly secured.* Eisenhower had held the Third Army back for the U.S. forces' Sunday punch...
First Phase: fight a delaying action toward Pusan, an excellent port only 150 miles from Japan, across waters controlled by the U.S. Navy and Air Force. Establish a perimeter around Pusan with both flanks resting on the sea (see map). The ideal beachhead would be small enough to be held by three or four well-armed U.S. divisions plus regrouped South Korean troops (see below), yet large enough to protect Allied activities in & around the port from enemy artillery fire. Barring Russia's intervention, the U.S and U.N. forces would have control of the air and sea, and ought...
...North Koreans suffered heavy losses in men and armor, but they pushed on doggedly. The invaders widened the Samgyo beachhead to take Nonsan (see , about 15 miles to the south, then swung northwest to attack Taejon. The town and its airfield, from which U.S. fighter craft and hospital planes had operated, were under Communist artillery fire; the airfield was evacuated...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...
...time the U.S. Fifth Army had taken Rocca Massima, a village about twelve miles from the Anzio beachhead, the inhabitants were sharply divided about the future. Lean, greying Igino Cianfone, the village blacksmith, drew together the village leftists, talked 200 into paying Communist Party dues. Meanwhile, his good friend Deputy Postmaster Gustavo Coriddi enlisted village moderates in the Christian Democratic Party...