Word: bridgehead
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...Germans, trying to enlarge their Caucasian bridgehead in the Kuban, threw eight to ten divisions into a fruitless offensive. In the Kalinin sector, northwest of Moscow, General Maxim Purkaev, Soviet Military Attache in Berlin when war began, led a limited Soviet drive through the scrubby birch forests. But the most important action was taking place behind the fronts...
...geographic results of Russia's winter campaign, if that line is correct, are shown above. The net strategic effect has been to leave the Germans on something very like the line from which they started a year ago, except that they now hold all Crimea and the Novorossiisk bridgehead. The map also pointed up the smallness of Russian gains in the north. The Rzhev salient was reduced and the Leningrad siege lifted, but nothing like the hoped-for offensive eating into the Baltic states had been realized...
...planning to use Spain to create a new base against the Axis powers." Axis broadcasts spread a report that Juan Negrin, last premier of the Spanish Republic, had arrived in Morocco from Britain (where, last week, he was still living quietly in Hertfordshire), to build a political pre-invasion bridgehead to Spain. On more solid ground, a Berlin broadcast aligned "Franco Spain" with "National Socialist Germany, Fascist Italy, Laval France...
...Hitler is forearmed. He knows that the main blow of any full-scale invasion must fall somewhere between Brest and Den Helder, where The Netherlands had its chief naval base (see map, p. jo). Over the area where they first seek an invasion bridgehead, the Allies must have absolute command of the air. They must be able to cover the invasion with fighters based on Britain, and the actual offensive radius of Britain's fighter squadrons is much less than most people suppose-about 100 miles. Only the fortified stretch of German Europe along the Channel, the near Atlantic...
...that Bock was testing Timoshenko's "remaining manpower," then a reference to advancing Nazi forces, finally the outright statement from Moscow that the Germans had the advantage in numbers of men, tanks, planes. Thus Berlin, was probably telling the truth in a communique claiming the recapture of a, bridgehead between the Donets River and Kharkov—the one tangible gain which the Russians held after their May offensive waned...