Word: beachhead
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...Anzio, "we counted [on] the belief of the Air Force that it could 'isolate' the beachhead area ... I might as well say right here that this didn't work . . . Throughout the Italian campaign, I saw this isolation theory tried out again and again, and repeatedly the enemy moved his forces by railroad and by highway, with some difficulty to be sure, but with a great deal of effectiveness...
...Korean comrades could possibly stave off a swift defeat for the Red aggressors. But more & more such intervention seemed unlikely. The time for it would have been a month ago when a relatively minor effort might have pushed U.N. forces into a Dunkirk on their southern beachhead. Now, for a change, not the free world but the enemy had acted too little and too late...
After the first U.S. troops, committed in battle below Seoul, had carried out MacArthur's first step and forced the enemy to deploy (map 1), MacArthur was able to foresee and plan the future course of the war. He planned a delaying retreat to a defensible beachhead (map 2), a buildup of strength behind the perimeter (map 3) and finally a breakout aided by one or more amphibious attacks behind the enemy lines (map 4). Although the Korean war brought many surprises (of which the greatest was the sudden Red collapse), the shape of the war after the first...
...airplanes and by 3.5-in. bazookas, capable of penetrating eleven inches of armor, the first of which were dispatched to Korea by emergency air shipment from the U.S. It was clear that if the Kum River line could not be held, the defenders would soon be compressed into a beachhead perimeter around Pusan. U.S. commentators began to bandy the horrid word "Dunkirk." Were the Allies in Korea being pushed into...
...Wednesday the avalanche began to roll. Late the night before a motorized column of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division, barreling up from the south, had joined hands with the X Corps pushing down from the Inchon beachhead. "Complete breakthrough," reported Tokyo. On Thursday the enemy's main force abandoned Seoul, his trapped divisions in the southwest fell apart. On Friday, U.N. communiques called it a "rout." By week's end, the avalanche had run its thunderous course. North Korean organized resistance had ended, U.N. forces were mopping up isolated remnants, the first U.N. division had crossed the 38th...