Word: bridgehead
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...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...
...brought a confusing week to 68-year-old Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt, German Supreme Commander in the west. First he received the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, with a double-talk citation for "preventing the deployment of the enemy bridgehead into a battle of three fronts." Then he lost...
...Germans had excellent defensive positions, along ridges and on the banks of the Odon River, which lies like an outer bastion to the west of the Orne. But the Allied attack stormed through southeast of Tilly-sur-Seulles, crossed the Odon and established a respectable bridgehead. Then they set methodically to work widening the salient. The first push of the drive was all but complete. The Germans began a series of violent counterattacks...
Wrong Guess Again. British and Canadian troops on the easternmost sector of the bridgehead met the stubbornest German resistance. Caen held...