Word: footholds
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Just at the time when Rommel's remnants were fleeing before the British in Egypt (see p. 27), U.S. troops landed along the whole coast line of Vichy Morocco and Algeria. Instantly Hitler's already serious problem of trying to keep an Axis foothold in Africa became just twice as serious...
...battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned the scene into "a tennis match in hell." Thrown back when they tried to regain a foothold on Guadalcanal Island, the Japanese were trapped by a counterattacking flanking force, the sea at their rear and U.S. forces covering the Tenaru river (see cut, p. 34). When U.S. tanks attacked, there was nothing for the Japs to do but surrender (which few did) or be crushed and blown to bits...
Another raider group swept through the extensive area westward of the Marines' perimeter, hunting down a Japanese force that has a foothold there. A half-dozen Japanese were flushed and shot. The rest fled beyond range and down the coast...
Port Moresby, the Allied base on the south coast of New Guinea, is more than the United Nations' last pitiful foothold in the rich empire of the Indies: it is a thorn in the paw of the Jap, By repeated bombings he has tried to shake it out. Last week he committed himself to a new operation: he would pluck it out with the bayonet...
...much equipment at West Coast ports were being nastily diverted northward, how much reinforcement had been received from the battle-trained Royal Canadian Air Force, what preparations were afoot to dislodge the Japs. Plain to see was that, although Japan had paid a heavy price for its Aleutian foothold, if the U.S. intended to kick the Jap out, the U.S., too, would...