Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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April 9, having pushed into Bessarabia, the Russians assault Odessa and push into the Crimea...
Although the Fifth Army's western push was no sideshow, its future lay in the deep valleys and high peaks of the Apennines. For the Eighth, the future was brighter; the breakthrough would not be complete until Rimini was passed, but beyond that was no natural defensive feature to help the Germans. Beyond, there was nothing but the plain of the Po, with its great industrial cities whose population could be counted on to give the Allies more help than they had received in any other section of Italy...
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Outblitzed, Bewildered. Ike Eisenhower's push had developed faster than the Germans had reckoned. Omar Bradley's tankmen and truck-borne infantry -a new-formed Third Army-had stunned the enemy again & again with swift, piercing strokes...
...daring. Leaving mopping-up to wait, the Americans had already taken Le Mans and were swinging north against the Seventh Army's rear when Kluge's reinforcements began to arrive over his battered roads. Underrating the American threat, Kluge threw his reinforcements into an attempt to push his dangling flank to the sea near Avranches. This only drove his troops deeper into Eisenhower's trap...