Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first phase of the Battle of Italy had ended. Between them, the Fifth, pinning down the main German force in the lower peninsula, and the Eighth,* pounding up the toe, heel and shank, had consolidated the first bridgehead on main land Europe. Now the second phase could begin...
Bernard Montgomery had bet six shillings that he would not be home by Christmas ; where he might be, he would not wager. Mark Clark had said: Naples, Rome and a liberated Italy. These, obviously, were immediate objectives. For every bridgehead must ultimately lead or contribute to the advance on the Nazi heartland, the German inner citadel...
...barrier the land sloped down to the Po Valley, and beyond towered the Alps. Napoleon once had hacked a way across that rampart of nature, via Tarvis and Klagenfurt, toward Vienna. But it was formidable. Rather than a direct road to Germany, Italy might be a flank for other bridgeheads. > Italy leads to southern France. Because the Alpine passes narrow and drop steeply on the Italian side of the border, it is a military axiom that France is not readily assaulted from Italy. But from ports on the peninsula's west coast and from newly won Sardinia and Corsica...
...most of the Huon Peninsula. In twelve days he enveloped and captured Lae. Six days later he swept around Finschhaven, 70 miles beyond Lae on the Huon Gulf. His airborne Australians attacked inland. His seaborne Australians landed on the coast above Finschhaven, with mortar fire and bayonet established a bridgehead and seized Finschhaven airport. At week's end the fall of Finschhaven itself was imminent, and the Japs were reduced to a few last toe holds in eastern New Guinea...
...extreme crisis, artillerymen under Lieut. Colonel Hal Muldrow, one of the many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town and airfield of Montecorvino Pugliano. On the eleventh day a reporter flying over the lines saw columns of Germans retreating inland...