Word: footholds
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...Navy announced this week that it has finally solved an old nautical problem: how to keep barnacles off the bottom of a ship. The solution: a new plastic paint which makes bottoms so slick that for at least two years no barnacle can get a foothold...
...Germans' foothold on the Maas River was torn violently loose. They scuttled out of the Maas strongholds of Venlo and Roermond. When the Ninth and the Canadian First Army (which includes some English, Scottish and Welsh units) joined forces near Geldern (see map), the pocket was empty except for a few stragglers. Berlin said that the British Second Army had moved forward into the vacuum...
...more troops ashore and to emplace some artillery. With the rough seas of the second and third days, we might never have accomplished our initial landing. Not all the small boats made the beach that first afternoon, but enough made it to enable us to keep our foothold. By late afternoon we held perhaps 10% of the island-the most dangerous...
Land of the Free. It was the shifting fortunes of war in Europe that swung the U.S. alternately into optimism and pessimism, and always the pendulum swung too far. When the Allies won and held their first foothold in Normandy, the war seemed all but over. When the first attempts to break out of the peninsula failed, gloom settled down. When the breakout came and the Germans were routed, it was in the bag. When the Allies pulled up in September, back came the gloom. When Generals Bradley and Devers resumed the offensive in November, there were Congressmen in Washington...
That night the U.S. airbornes inflated their few boats again, crossed the Lek to relieve the men in the "patch of hell." Gradually the Allied foothold across the Lek was strengthened. But still there was no letup of the German pressure. For this was also a battle of desperation for the Germans. U.S. columns advancing eastward from the rescue corridor drove into German territory a few miles from Cleve, the anchor of the Siegfried Line. This was not merely a battle to rescue the British airborne. It was a battle to turn the whole right flank of the German army...