Word: frontality
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...Frontal assault on the tower was impossible for the light-weaponed Americans. Like Indians around a blockhouse they harassed it with fire from trees, doorways, windows. At last three British tanks rumbled up after their 20-mile spurt from Eindhoven. As they arrived the Belvedere's guns spoke-and all three tanks were knocked...
...panicky things, but where he had the troops he fought fiercely. At points the going was worse for the Americans than it had been back on the Norman beaches. At one point the Germans used a "psychological tactic" borrowed from the eastern front-a shoulder-to-shoulder frontal assault by screaming, yelling infantrymen. The Indian-silent G.I. reaction: mow 'em down...
...center of the new line Bradley had already exploited his speed to get a frontal offensive going, headed east. He had pushed armored and infantry columns out of Rennes to the highway junction of Laval, 148 miles from Paris. Other columns swept down from Fougères to Mayenne, 137 miles from the capital. To the south another had cut to the east...
Fighting alongside white units, the Negro doughboys helped extend outposts across the Saua River. With bazookas, flamethrowers and Browning automatic fire they beat off frontal attacks by day, creeping infiltration by night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...
This time the Allies relied not only upon their artillery and their bombing and desperate infantry charges. Reverting to the ancient military doctrine that what cannot be taken by frontal assault can be encircled, General Sir Harold Alexander sent powerful units of his Polish troops around to the right of Cassino. His Britons, Canadians and Indians crossed the Rapido River to the left, circled to cut Via Casilina and join the Poles. The Green Devils were outdeviled...