Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from bases over 800 miles away. But whether the Russians would try to cross the Vistula and storm the bluffs held by the Germans was still uncertain. The Russians have a more economic technique of enveloping such cities, demonstrated at Kiev. Last week they already had a bridgehead across the Vistula 25 miles southeast of Warsaw, from which the southern arm of a pincers could be forged; the northern arm was being brought to white heat as Rokossovsky drove northwest of Praga...
...threat was triple: Chernyakhovsky's forces aimed at the East Prussian border; Rokossovsky's and Zakharov's forces aimed directly west toward Berlin, but could swing north to envelop East Prussia, or north and south to envelop Warsaw; Konev's huge bridgehead on the upper Vistula pointed at Cracow and German Silesia. Most of the surface activity last week was in the Balkans, but the great drive had passed from the explosive to the mopping-up stage. The noises from Berlin betrayed well-grounded anxiety about the sectors north of the Carpathians, the direct menace...
...taken Colonel General Walther von Reichenau 31 days after the breakthrough at Sedan (where a ready-made land front already existed) to capture Paris. In 1944 it had taken Bradley 23 days after the breakthrough at Coutances (where a land front had had to be created in the Normandy bridgehead) to cross the Seine, which permitted Paris to free itself...
...outstanding Soviet success of the week was achieved below Warsaw on the Vistula, where wily, leathery Marshal Konev captured the important rail town of Sandomierz, destroyed the Nazi garrison of three divisions, enlarged his bridgehead across the Vistula to 1,600 square miles. Adolf Hitler was said to have called Konev's position "a pistol pointed at the German empire...
...gentlemen, I hope the Russians have done something today." General Montgomery's offensive east of Caen, which had jumped off to such a promising start early in the week, had clanked to a grinding stop. Infantrymen, mopping up the ground taken, had es tablished a sound and useful bridgehead across the Orne River barrier, and the Allies were unquestionably in better position for the next push, but that was about...