Word: coastal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tuesday morning the blow fell. Parachute and glider troops dropped down before dawn on German strongpoints inland. By sunrise a great Allied fleet of 800 ships was offshore battering coastal positions with its big guns while powerful air assault forces concentrated their bombs and bullets on the beachhead...
This week General Douglas MacArthur moved 200 miles closer to the Philippines. Leapfrogging along the coast of New Guinea, his troops landed on the island's northwestern tip at Sansapor, grabbed two coastal islands in the bargain. Said MacArthur: "The enemy is now unable to operate beyond his Philippine-Halmahera line"-i.e., the Jap was out of New Guinea so far as any more offensive action was concerned...
Along the Tyrrhenian Sea Lieut. General Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army, stymied on the coastal road, threw its shoulder against a sector farther inland. It heaved through the hills to outflank the port of Leghorn, Italy's third largest, which the Allies must have for the assault on the Gothic Line...
Brusque Admiral Hennecke looked superciliously down his hawk's nose. His morale had just been boosted by award of the Knight's Cross to the Iron Cross. "Hennecke performed a feat unique in the history of coastal defense," read his radioed citation. "He carried out an exemplary destruction of the port of Cherbourg...
...Left. The German left fell back of its own accord along the Adriatic-a necessary corollary to retreat in the west. Allied troops advanced without cost, occupied the port of Pescara, the capital of Chieti province, took over the coastal end of the lateral highway to Rome. The German left seemed to be having trouble disengaging itself for fast retreat...