Word: beachhead
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...Divisions storming ashore [on Saipan], etc. No mention is made of the fact that the 27th Infantry Division was called in to bail the Marines out of the mess they got themselves into . . . because they didn't have the wherewithal to secure the beachhead. The 27th was a floating reserve and was not even supposed to have been used . . . but they were diverted to rescue the Marines ... as usual. Unfortunately, they did not have the Marine setup of correspondents to supply the civilian correspondents with stories...
...Body Worship." Six cassocked priests, accompanied by 200 of their supporters, turned up at the gate, carrying picket signs that read, "Stop this body-worship." Then another group ran a fishing boat close inshore, a few hundred feet from the Argentina, and tried to storm the beachhead from behind. This disturbance distressed Athens Police Chief Nicholas Tsaousis, who was inside the nightclub, in white jacket, strictly in line of duty. "Pick a few of them up," he commanded...
After triumphantly brushing past a maid who had orders to keep her out, Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller, estranged wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, consolidated her beachhead in his 15-room Park Avenue apartment by winning permission to come & go as she pleased. Winthrop was in Little Rock. Ark., ostensibly to go into business but more likely to qualify himself for a divorce after three months' residence. Scoffed Bobo: "He's not the barefoot-boy type. He has not suddenly fallen in love with the heartland of America." For a self-proclaimed old-fashioned girl, twice-married Bobo (her first...
...Cautious? Reduced to 35 planes and minus two carriers, Ozawa hightailed it out of the Philippine Sea. Yet, since he had saved the bulk of his 55-ship fleet, Spruance and Mitscher felt small joy. Had Spruance been overly cautious? No, says Morison, he had the Saipan beachhead to think of. "Military men never get any credit for guarding against dangers that might occur yet do not; but they are quickly 'hanged' if they fail adequately to guard against dangers that do occur-witness Pearl Harbor." Moreover, Morison argues, the battle was fully as decisive as Ozawa thought...
...number of ships-no specific number of divisions-no special number of billions of dollars-that will automatically guarantee our security . . . Today three aircraft with modern weapons can practically duplicate the destructive power of all the 2,700 planes we unleashed in the great breakout attack from the Normandy beachhead . . . I [speak] to you . . . not only as your President but as one whose life has been devoted to the military defense of our country...