Word: beachhead
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...hours after the original landings on Dday, we had a toe hold and it looked like a good one. But all hell broke loose before noon. From the north and from the south the hidden Japs poured artillery and 6-in. mortars into the marines on the beachhead. Nearly all our tanks were clustered near the black-ash beaches like so many black beetles struggling to move on tar paper. A few other chuffing monsters waddled up the steep incline toward the airfield, spouting flames now and then into the .pillboxes which were blended into the sandy approaches...
Forging the Trident. From the day MacArthur's first elements made their beachhead on Lingayen Gulf, the way lay straight down the central valley to Manila, and there was no doubt that MacArthur and his Sixth Army commander, Lieut. General Walter Krueger, intended to go there just as fast as they could drive. But there were other things to consider. The Jap must not be allowed to slip onto Bataan. And he must not be allowed to prolong his hold on Manila...
...Japanese continued to fade away from the south and west of his beachhead, offering major resistance only in the northeast, Krueger had good reason to be satisfied. Said he: "Of course I would have preferred to come to grips with the enemy. But you can't figure out what, when, how or why the Japanese act as they do, and I'm not worrying about...
...things that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France...
...armada under Vice Admiral Thomas Cassin Kinkaid that it was divided into four: 1) bombardment and fire-support group, under Vice Admiral Jesse Barrett Oldendorf (victor of Surigao Strait); 2) close cover group, under Rear Admiral Russell S. Berkey; 3) San Fabian Attack Force, with troops for the northern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barbey; 4) Lingayen Attack Force, with troops for the southern beachhead, under Vice Admiral Theodore S. Wilkinson...