Word: beachheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late at Anzio, with the result that, although the landing was a surprise, which is always possible through naval support, the troops, instead of moving or being able to move to cut the Via Casilina, the sup ply line of the German forces at Cassino began consolidation of the beachhead, where they are besieged...
...stone houses and strong points, U.S. 8-in. and 240-mm. howitzers are now being used because of their greater penetrating and greater blasting power. (The first pictures of 2403 being used in Italy were released this week.) But apparently the big fellows are not available on the Anzio beachhead...
There the German 170-mm. rifle shoots right across to the beach. (Troops on the beachhead call it the "Anzio Express" because they can hear the scream of its shells passing, hear the report of the gun from the enemy lines, hear the explosion on the shore behind them.) Sometimes the troops see the German guns firing, call on their 105s for counterbattery fire, only to see the U.S. bursts fall far short at maxi mum range. Even 155s sneaked to for ward positions at night have not succeeded in reaching the Germans...
...weeks," wrote Watt, "they held a phenomenally long stretch of Anzio beachhead . . . several times more than would normally be allotted to a corresponding number of infantry...
...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...