Word: beachhead
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Monument by Monument. But dust had not freshly settled over the Cassino abbey before the Allies faced another monument. Allied GHQ in Algiers announced that Castel Gandolfo, the Pope's summer palace, approximately twelve miles north of the Anzio beachhead, "contained a heavy saturation of Nazis." Five days later, Rome announced that Castel Gandolfo had again been bombed...
...deepest point last week the Anzio beachhead ran about eight miles inland. The Germans had dragged up 210-mm. guns. Virtually every yard of the area was exposed to artillery fire as well as bombing. Even field hospitals (plainly marked with Red Cross emblems) were in range of the guns...
...Corps made its first beachhead landing in the first year of its existence, 1776. That was on New Providence, the Bahama Islands, when Captain Samuel Nicholas took 220 marines and 50 sailors ashore as the schooner Wasp and the sloop Providence laid down supporting fire. Captain Nicholas captured 71 cannon, 115 mortars, 24 casks of powder, suffered no casualties...
...thin appropriations for its armored warships, which it planned would bombard not enemy beaches but enemy warships, as in the Battle of Jutland. The Marines, always conscious of their traditional role, got nothing when they tried to get funds for the small landing boats which are the key to beachhead operations...
...Ever Forget . . ." Late in 1940 Holland Smith took his brigade and his single alligator to the Caribbean for seven months' hard training in beachhead landings. He threw in his course in Marine philosophy: "Don't ever forget you are the best fighting man in the world." After he returned he was made a major general...