Word: inlander
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...deepest point last week the Anzio beachhead ran about eight miles inland. The Germans had dragged up 210-mm. guns. Virtually every yard of the area was exposed to artillery fire as well as bombing. Even field hospitals (plainly marked with Red Cross emblems) were in range of the guns...
Jerry held the high ground inland from the coastal plain. If he had not been there in force when the invaders landed, he had quickly and cleverly redisposed himself. Now, looking down on the restricted area (eight miles deep, 14 miles long) where the Allies had landed six divisions plus armored force, he hammered the invaders...
...fleets, 1,200 planes strong, staged a savage, two-day mauling of the Luftwaffe's important French air bases around Paris. Weather apparently was holding Britain's heavy night-flying bombers in check, but the speedy Mosquitoes were out nightly, at tacking German targets as far inland as Berlin...
...performance of Bethlehem Steel was a different kind of surprise. Thanks largely to its shipbuilding operations, which pushed gross sales almost up to Big Steel's, Bethlehem totted up a profit of $32,124,592, up 25% from 1942. Inland Steel held its own for the year, with profit steady...
...installed a rigid daily training schedule for his crews, taught them to fly and fight a really "hot" aircraft. By midsummer the Marauders tackled the broad assignment of pounding the Luftwaffe's northwestern French airfields. By October Anderson could report that the enemy squadrons had been pushed inland 40 miles. He kept at it, developed new tactics for evading flak, trained his bombardiers to needlepoint precision...