Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reich's dread of a two-front war had become a staggering reality of three, with more to follow if the Allies decided that more amphibious attacks on the Continent were necessary. The Allies' breakthrough of the Atlantic Wall had been followed by an even greater disaster in the east...
...carried to the town's outskirts; then it was hurled back. The battle settled down to a slugging match between the British Second Army and a German army, apparently the Seventh. Best break for the Allies was that the enemy never collected enough armor for a solid breakthrough attack. He committed his tanks piecemeal until four Panzer divisions were engaged in the fighting...
...divisions that rate highly with Monty are the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders, which were wiped out in glory before Dunkirk, were revivified to spearhead the breakthrough at El Alamein, and are with him today in Normandy. It was to troops of that sort that Monty made one of his famous proclamations: "Nothing has stopped us . . . Nothing will...
...Diet seats) would revolt. But the effective time had passed. Germans were arriving every day, parading the streets of Helsinki and singing mechanically. The citizens glared. Ribbentrop flew home to tell his master that Finland would tie up some 20 Russian divisions, prevent a Russian breakthrough to Norway and possible juncture with the Western Allies. Down by the harbor a stolid crowd watched flustered Germans dredge for 15 tanks, sent to the bottom the day before when a small and poorly loaded German freighter turned over near the quay...
They brought the Allied pursuit to a walk halfway between Rome and Florence, gave the battered Tenth and Fourteenth German Armies time to collect their wits. For the first time since the breakthrough below Rome, the Germans made counter attacks...