Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were a great many Americans killed and wounded when the Germans had the upper hand. There were dead men who had been old buddies of the survivors, who had trained with them at home and fought successfully with them in Sicily. There is still fierce fighting for this bridgehead, but this regiment will yet avenge its dead...
...March and June's third week this year, the Germans had merely held what they retrieved from the Russian winter offensive. Nowhere had the Russians attempted an attack on the scale of their Kharkov offensive last year. Only in the Kuban, the Germans' last bridgehead in the Caucasus, had the Red Army attempted a major action, and this attempt had failed...
...will then bring up the first attack wave of 50,000 troops. Only 13,000 of these will reach shore. Half of a second wave of 50,000 will also be killed by defending submarines and aircraft. The survivors of the first 100,000 men will establish a bridgehead extending perhaps five or six miles inland, although by then 90,000 of them will have been killed, captured or wounded. Other waves will follow. By the third day the Germans will have drawn on their mobile defense reserves and the main Allied force will have landed. The decisive battle will...
Bataan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked...
...supply road to China lies through Jap-held Burma, where the British had failed in their preliminary campaign to win a bridgehead for later operations (TIME, April 19). Last week the Commander of the Fourteenth, Major General Claire Chennault, and his superior in the China theater, Lieut. General Joseph E. Stilwell, undoubtedly included the prospects for reopening Burma in the agenda of their staff talks in Washington...