Word: beachhead
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...Allies rolled up the shin of the Italian boot, while the northern end of the main Italian battle line stood silent. The aim of Allied Commander Sir Harold R.L.G. Alexander seemed clear: to push back the German right flank, smash into it with his troops at the Anzio beachhead...
...spite of these items of superiority, the German retreat had not turned to panic. But if Alexander's plans worked right there would be wholesale disruption before the campaign was over. Shorn of his supply system, menaced by the forces on the beachhead, pushed by troops who had finally broken a humiliating stalemate, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring had trouble on his hands...
These were sufficient reasons to clinch slight, earnest Ernie Pyle's claim to the title of No. 1 war correspondent. But last week, as nearly every week, he provided another. Arriving in London from the Anzio beachhead, he gave his 11,500,000 readers a notable example of his warm, richly simple style...
From Femina Morta ("Dead Woman's Corner"), U.S. tanks and infantry on the Anzio front punched within two miles of the Appian Way. Along the whole beachhead front, attacks great & small flared up and died. The Allied forces were still stalled. But in the air, infantrymen saw some cheer...
...elements of six divisions and one brigade (about 60,000 men). Reinforcement and supply are cut off. Like the Jap exiles on southern Bougainville, they have little choice but to live sparsely in the jungle, or to seek death in scattered attacks against the overwhelmingly strong American beachhead...