Word: overrun
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...spread. In the mountainous center of the peninsula below Bologna Allied artillery poured 75,000 shells into the enemy lines and the troops drove ahead. The advance, measured in yards in the early hours, gradually picked up speed as the German mortars, dug in almost baseplate to baseplate, were overrun...
...Axis confronted us with a simple choice: fight or be overrun. There was then, and is now, no other possibility...
...latest Red Army offensive, many German "hedgehog" strong points had been overrun, but many had stood as outposts for a possible Nazi counter-drive. Among them had been Poznan, Torun, Schneidernühl, Arnswalde, Grudziadz, Breslau. Of these pockets of resistance, only two still stood this week: Grudziadz (on the Polish Corridor approaches to Danzig) and Breslau-and both appeared doomed...
...battlefields northeast of Canton, darkness persisted. The Japanese who had overrun the American air bases at Suichwan and Kanhsien pressed on to Namyung, source of steel-hardening wolfram. The great airfield at Sincheng, big enough for B-29s, was lost just nine days after an army of coolies had completed the heartbreaking task of pounding the runways smooth and straight...
That was Rundstedt's first upset. The second was the heroic refusal of the 101st Airborne to be overrun at Bastogne. The Americans' northern peg held firm when a regiment of one of the overrun divisions refused to give ground and enabled First Army divisions to the north to wheel in on that flank...