Word: beachhead
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...must seek constantly to give it vigor. . . . It is true, as I said long since, that it is only a 'beachhead in the battle for peace. . . .' But ... it is a vital beachhead. ... Its machinery and powers are limited. . . . But it is flexible. It can grow. ... Do not sell the United Nations Organization short. Do not undermine what you have in an academic discussion of what you wish...
There was emotion, too, but of a different sort, in the hearts of the 11th Airborne Division as they dropped down on Atsugi, of the 4th Marines as they plunged ashore at Yokosuka, heavily laden with battle gear that was to be useless. This was the last beachhead, and they hit it standing up. There was no fight left in the enemy...
...This is the beachhead where I was supposed to land. General MacArthur gave me this area. I never expected to reach it in a plane without a shot being fired...
...November 1944, Halsey saw his dream coming true: after his Third Fleet had covered General MacArthur's return to the Philippines he would strike the hated Empire. But there were not enough land-based aircraft to defend the Philippine beachhead; twice the chafing Third Fleet was recalled to give tactical support. The first carrier-plane strikes on the Tokyo area, which had been scheduled to mesh with the first B-29 attacks on the enemy capital, had to be canceled. Admiral R. A. Spruance got in ahead in February ; Halsey had to be content with storming into the South...
...beach on D-day would hardly recognize their hellish beachhead nowadays. Eight thousand Seabees under Commodore Robert Johnson have built some of the world's longest runways, moved four million cubic yards of earth and even sliced the top off Mt. Suribachi. A Japanese major who recently came out of a cave blinked around and paid the Seabees the ultimate tribute. Said he: "Impossible...