Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...matter what it cost. In December, the cry for fighting men became more insistent. The Rhine Valley offensive had cost Eisenhower 55,000 more men than he could immediately replace. With rifle strength in many divisions cut a third to a half, Eisenhower shouted for reinforcements. The Ardennes breakthrough made his appeal more urgent than ever...
...Rivers. The main battle for Warsaw had not been fought among its ruins, but for miles around them. Zhukov forced a crossing of the unfrozen Vistula 57 miles south of the city, widened his bridgehead and then struck with the full weight of his armor to carve out a breakthrough. Zhukov's tanks fought and won two battles as they sped northward to the Warsaw-Lódź highway. Eighteen miles north of the city another Russian force made its crossings, struck through to join the main column on the highway. Warsaw was taken from the rear...
...months to build an impassable barrier. Thousands of Yugoslav laborers had dug three lines of trenches on either side, protected by a string of strong points to the east. Marshal Ivan Konev made straight for these barriers, bypassed the strong points before the enemy had recovered from his breakthrough. Konev's advance forces crossed the formidable Nida line before the retreating Germans could...
Bradley Resumes. SHAEF censors passed a dispatch hinting that General Omar Bradley had resumed command of his northern armies (relinquished to Field Marshal Montgomery after the German breakthrough), and there was another hint in the fact that Bradley last week pinned a decoration on Lieut. General Courtney Hodges, the First Army's commander. But Bradley was in no shape to resume his November offensive on the Roer. The western front was once more a battle for time-on both sides. Supreme Commander Eisenhower had to rebuild his offensive platforms as quickly as possible. The Germans had to continue delaying...
...tank town, and in India and China. But, because of the tight grip of M.G.M., 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount and Warner Brothers and their theater chains on Manhattan's first run houses, it has yet to appear on Broadway. thus parting the golden circle. But the final breakthrough will depend on the independents themselves...