Word: bridgehead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cried El Pampero, Axis propaganda daily operating under a freedom-of-press guarantee from Ramón Castillo: "Action Argentina, the bridgehead of Yankee warmongers in our country, must be dissolved by executive power...
...Adriatic coastal plain, the Italians succeeded in driving a bridgehead across the Kalamas River, and in sending patrols several miles beyond the river. But this week the Greeks, greatly aided by the rain, claimed to have succeeded in pushing the enemy back to the bridgehead...
Lieutenant Richard W. Annand's platoon ran out of ammunition while defending a blasted bridgehead on the Dyle River in Belgium. The Germans started across the river. Lieut. Annand ran forward alone into machine-gun fire, bombarded the enemy with hand grenades, drove them back with more than 20 casualties. Later that night, though wounded, he repeated the performance. When he was finally ordered to withdraw his platoon, he did so in good order, but found his batman (orderly) had been left behind. He went back, fetched the orderly in a wheelbarrow, then passed...