Word: breakout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather ruins the rest of October, bogging down armor, grounding planes and aggravating the Allies' already tremendous supply problems, Germany's chances of surviving the winter will look better than at any time since the Normandy breakout. Even so, nobody will hand her a gilt-edged certificate positively guaranteeing that she can fight on into...
...shift from Bradley's to Hodges' command was made in mid-battle, without the grating of a gear. The battle plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap...
Then the Allies in the north began to move. Brisk, wiry Lieut. General Henry Duncan Graham Crerar's Canadian First Army moved behind a 1 ,000-plane breakout bombing, fought fiercely to set up bridgeheads over the Orne, battled a German bulge to the west in which Kluge vainly spent some of his reserves...
...Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
...Tank and By Foot. The breakout by the armored forces was swift, decisive. U.S. tankmen swept out into the open fields from the woods that tankers hate...