Word: beachhead
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...that dinky pistol carried by General George Marshall on his visit to the Normandy beachhead is a Service model .45-caliber automatic, then my bazooka is a popgun...
Cool in Combat. "Primarily they were used as ammunition carriers and beachhead unloading parties, but on Saipan some were used for combat. When Japs counterattacked the 4th Marine Division near Charan Kanoa, twelve Negroes were thrown into the defense line. Their white officers said they accounted for about 15 Japs...
...World War II equivalent of the homemade crystal set (circa 1920) with its galena rock and cat's whisker, turned up in force on the Anzio Beachhead. One of hundreds of U.S. infantrymen who made foxhole receivers to kill time and boredom at Anzio, Lieut. M. L. Rupert, sent a diagram and description of the set to the Marlin Firearms Co. (razor blades, etc.). Wrote...
...Phase 1 the Allied armies had assaulted the coast. Phase 2 ended when the beachhead was firmly established. In Phase 3, Lieut. General Omar Bradley's First U.S. Army enveloped and captured the port of Cherbourg. Not until Cherbourg fell could General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery, Allied ground commander in France, begin Phase 4: the crashing drive into the vitals of the enemy...
Even Montgomery, a man with fanatical confidence in his plans and troops, might have had some uneasy moments in the early stages of the battle, as he pushed the thin beachhead inland, turned the Second Army eastward to invite resistance and hold it, then wheeled the American First Army west and north to Cherbourg. The plan worked: British infantry and artillery held the German armored attacks...