Word: heroisms
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...ashore discovered, they landed exactly where the Germans expected them to land (see p. 28). Many British and American soldiers were killed. At the center of the 24-mi. beachhead, on the fifth day, the Germans drove within three miles of the sea, almost severing the invasion forces. Great heroism, strong naval and air support and reinforcements saved the landings. Ten days after the landings, three days after the crisis on the beaches had passed, the Eighth Army was arriving in force at the lower end of the Fifth's hard-won position...
...Tactical necessity may compel us once and again to give up something on some front in this gigantic fateful struggle, and to avoid some particular threat, but it will never break the ring of steel that, forged by the homeland and maintained through the heroism of our front, protects the German Reich...
...will win." They did. They fought in mud four feet deep, often in continuous, drenching rain (the survivors of one battalion had been in action for 40 days, on 36 of which it rained). And, as in the aerial battles, which preceded the jungle and mountain fighting, individual heroism sustained and inspired the collective resistance, won the final victory...
...Navy transport Alchiba is back at sea again, eight months after officially being reported lost. Her log book is an epic of seamanship, brilliant salvage work and heroism...
...noble army of martyrs has a new recruit. Last week the U.S. heard the story of his heroism...