Word: beachhead
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...Axis forces had been driven into a great beachhead, about 100 miles long and 50 miles deep. Inside that beachhead, Albert Kesselring had 18 airfields, two cities with radiating roads, many good heights, some fixed fortifications, plenty of guns, and perhaps 175,000 men. He had Rommel, a proved master of battle, and Arnim, an aristocratic technician. And he had orders...
...Terrain. The Axis beachhead in Tunisia is not wholly a fortress. Much of it is country which favors defense, but there are vulnerable spots...
...Germans do succeed in re-establishing the Donets line, the net result of the Russian drive in the south will have been a great victory; Hitler's advances of a year will have been erased-almost. The Germans still hold all of the Crimea and the Novorossiisk beachhead in the Caucasus, which they did not have at the beginning of the 1942 offensive. But the net result will be disappointing, if only because hopes for the Russians had gone so high...
...skittering, mighty midgets that the Navy calls motor torpedo boats, had well and truly proved their worth. In the Philippines they had shown themselves first-class weapons in a last-ditch fight. In the Solomons they had proved more: that they were indispensable in the defense of any beachhead...
...drawn to illustrate events that might erupt into the headlines-maps they could fill in and finish at a few minutes' notice. For example, three years ago they prepared a basic map of the invasion of Britain, which needs only the direction arrows and the names of the beachhead battlefields to be ready for the plate-maker. I hope (pretty confidently) that we shall never have a chance to use this...