Word: cotentin
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...Taylor slipped through German lines into Rome for armistice negotiations with Italian Premier Pietro Badoglio. For 24 hours, wearing a U.S. uniform, he went about his mission in Rome under the noses of the Germans. Promoted to command of the 101st Airborne Division, he parachuted into the Cotentin Peninsula with his troops the night before Dday, thereby becoming the first U.S. general officer to fight France in World War II. Made his second combat jump with the 101st when it invaded Holland, where Taylor was wounded. Was back in Washington on a special mission when his 101st was surrounded...
Third Phase: when ready (probably months hence), break out of the Pusan perimeter, as Patton had broken out of the Cotentin peninsula in Normandy. This main offensive north from Pusan could be supported by Allied amphibious attacks behind the North Korean lines on either coast...
Perhaps Lieut. General Omar Bradley's victory on the Cotentin peninsula last week was something more than the breaking of a stalemate. It may have been the opening break to the bigger battle that was in Ike Eisenhower's blueprint for destruction of the German in the west. Or, as war against the German goes in the west, it may have been only a breakout, destined to be stopped by a new line of resistance...
Meanwhile, Bradley brought in the 9th Division, teamed it with the 82nd Airborne Division, another battle-tried outfit which had made the first landings in the Cotentin. While the Nazis battered their heads and their armor around Montebourg, the 9th and 82nd struck west...
...protect the Americans' Cotentin operation, the Allies had to guard against interference by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's mobile reserves. To this task Ike Eisenhower assigned a British-Canadian army which drove swiftly inland to Bayeux and Caen, and cut the Germans' main supply road and railway from the east...