Word: footholds
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...battles now being fought over Germany are aimed to destroy Nazi fighter plane strength and production. . . . [That] is sought so that when Allied ground and air forces seek to force a further foothold on continental Europe they will have to contend ultimately with the German ground force, not with the German ground and air forces...
...Freed the Dnieper, save for a tiny German foothold at Kherson...
...Road Back. In that winter of disaster, the Germans retreated some 400 miles, lost (according to Moscow) 1,200,000 men and 5,000 planes, gave up Vyazma, Rzhev, Kharkov, Belgorod, Rostov, a foothold in Voronezh. Manstein, retreating along the southern fringe of Russia, shrewdly caught advanced Russian tank columns in the March mud and out of fuel, recaptured Belgorod and Kharkov, subsequently wrote a sometimes brilliant, sometimes mistaken, always futile chapter in the tactics of retreat...
Italy. Said the Eighth Army's General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery: "We've finally got what we wanted after hard fighting in dreadful weather." What the Eighth's men had won: a foothold on the Rome side of the Sangro River, one of the Germans' toughest barriers in eastern Italy...
...occupied, and driven back into the forest. But what they were meant to do, they had done; while the German attention was diverted, Russian infantrymen crossed the Dnieper, seized a bridgehead between the areas where the Red Army broke across the river in the last month. On to this foothold poured reinforcements of airborne and parachute troops...