Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headquarters, General Alexander paid his own tribute to the Anglo-U.S. troops of the Fifth Army: "The bridgehead force has played a most important role in the strategy of the Italian campaign. The enemy, unable to ignore this threat or to deal with it with troops he had available in southern Italy, was forced to send reinforcements from elsewhere which he could ill spare. These troops have been pinned down by our forces for four months...
...brief. Before bombardment six weeks of heavy fighting had taken one-quarter of the town; after bombardment the Allies took three-quarters of it in 24 hours. Early this week the Germans pushed up reinforcements, still held out in the western end. But the Allies' hard-won bridgehead over the Rapido River was growing. Next objective might be to capture Monastery Hill, site of the bombed-out Benedictine abbey, towering beyond the town...
...Battles of prolonged and intense fierceness have been fought. . . . The enemy has sustained very heavy losses but has not shaken the resistance of the bridgehead army. . . . General Alexander has probably seen more fighting against the Germans than any living British commander, unless it be General Freyberg, who is also in the fray. Alexander says the bitterness and fierceness of the fighting now going on both at the bridgehead and on the Cassino front surpasses all his previous experience.* He even uses in one message to me the word 'terrific...
...bridgehead itself the Allies have a very strong army and superiority in both artillery and tanks. Although spells of bad weather interrupt from time to time the deliveries of supplies, the amount landed . . . substantially exceeds the schedule prescribed. ... All battles are anxious as they approach the climax, but there is no justification for pessimism...
...Kherson, 640 miles to the south, the Germans withdrew from their bridgehead on the south bank of the frozen Dnieper...