Word: beachheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...case of "Here we go to Tokyo"; rather it was: "We are fighting like hell to hold on." Navy communiques, which last month optimistically had the Marines "mopping up" Guadalcanal, now said only "our positions remain intact"-without mentioning that those positions covered but 6,000 yards of beachhead, including a captured airdrome...
...gamble might succeed. The Allies could certainly land in France, Belgium or Holland. They might be able to hold a beachhead until they grew strong enough to blast into the formidable German defenses in depth. But it was a terribly long chance...
...British task force under greying, athletic Admiral Edward Neville Syfret stood off the craggy north end of Madagascar. The landing force was under the command of a veteran of beachhead warfare: lean, aloof Major General Robert Grice Sturges of the Royal Marines, Officer in the "Jollies" since 1912, he had gone through the blistering hell of Gallipoli, had seen British Marines shot to pieces on Belgium's coast in World...
...With a beachhead in the Germans' rear, the Russians plunged into their supply lines, slashing right & left. The Germans began to move troops back into rear areas to parry the thrust. They pecked at the landing party with Stukas, but the Russians had air power...
...radio eye at Bruneval, blamed for heavy casualties to British night sweeps over Europe, had been marked by the British for destruction. The parachutists overcame the astonished Germans in the station and blew it to ruins. Other Germans blocked their way to the beachhead where they were to embark and escape, but these Germans were taken in the rear by Army troops which had landed from light craft, backed up by the guns of Navy ships. The parachutists joined the troops on the beach, embarked under a shield of Navy shellfire, and the whole force moved triumphantly off under...