Word: beachheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan, either political or military, to turn such a development to account. Hasty conferences followed with some of the King's and the Marshal's emissaries. The armistice was signed, but its announcement was withheld to coincide with a proposed airborne invasion of Rome and the beachhead landing at Salerno. The Germans moved quickly. They prevented the airborne venture by disarming vastly superior numbers of Italians to whom the Allies had looked for help, then concentrated everything available at Salerno...
Killed in Action. Staff Sergeant John Aloysius Bushemi, 26, probably the best-known noncom in the Pacific area (one of Yank's finest cameramen), Iowa-born buddy of Sergeant Marion Hargrove (See Here, Private Hargrove); on the Eniwetok beachhead...
Even if the Germans were not knocked out, the air drive would soften Germany, make beachhead losses lighter when the invasion finally came...
Need for an amphibious operation to turn the enemy flank became obvious. The allied seaborne attack on the Anzio beachhead was launched...
Troops of the U.S. Sixth Army who landed at Arawe Dec. 15 fought their way at last around the horn's tip to join forces with Marines who were hacking a way from their beachhead at Cape Gloucester...