Word: beachhead
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...beachhead will be established on the steps of the European fortress without the payment of a ghastly price. As I see it at the moment, Canada is all teed up for a sickening shock. ... I can say nothing more earnestly and sincerely than I say this: . . . away with petty politics, away with fatuous and useless wrangling...
Grenadier Major William Sidney, son-in-law of Malta's Governor, Field Marshal the Viscount Gort, received the Victoria Cross "for superb courage and utter disregard of danger ... on the Anzio beachhead...
...hide his light under a landing boat is burly, flamboyant Andrew Jackson Higgins Sr., president of Higgins Industries, Inc. of New Orleans. Among other things, Mr. Higgins produces a handsome, 21-ounce, 228-page magazine called the Eureka News Bulletin, to disseminate information about the beachhead craft he manufactures...
...Germans, perhaps fishing for information, last week reported that Allied strength was being shifted to the Anzio beachhead. The Anzio beachhead would be much harder to exploit now than it would have been last January, but the German suggestion nonetheless made more than passable sense...
...bodies were strung like rags on the barbed wire around the American beachhead on Bougainville. In the torn jungle beyond, they lay like rotten fruit on the musty ground. While the attack was on-six futile assaults-the Japs had even sent their walking wounded back into action, to charge again. The Americans had mowed them down. At week's end the Japs were withdrawing, possibly to reorganize. In the month since the assault began they had lost 3,508 counted dead-20 for every American killed-and many more wiped , out in the jungle by artillery...