Word: salient
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retook Saint-Vith, a town of bloody and gallant memory. North of there, the Germans still stood on Belgian soil in a small bend of the border. They were smacked by the famed 1st Infantry, the stout peg which had held down the north shoulder of Rundstedt's salient. The doughboys attacked at 4 a.m. in a heavy snowstorm, without artillery preparation, and gained two miles...
...Rhine. From it, they struck north, west and south. On the north, they joined with other Nazi units attacking Hatten-a village whose shell-torn, fire-blackened ruins had been fought over for more than a week-and thus established a front from Gambsheim clear across to the Lorraine salient south of Bitche. The blow to the west drove the U.S. Seventh Army back five miles. Then the Germans shoved south to a point nine miles from Strasbourg...
...north last week General Sir Miles C. Dempsey's British Second Army launched an attack on the German salient between Roermond and Geilenkirchen. This appeared to be no more than a line-straightening operation, to bring the British up to the Roer, in line with the U.S. Ninth and First Army positions. Yet Dempsey's white-painted tanks and white-clad infantry advanced seven miles in three days, swept up a dozen villages, beat down with flamethrowers a counterattack by Nazi paratroops...
...Berlin radio announced that the Germans were evacuating Saint-Hubert. When the Allies entered the town a day later, it was empty. The U.S. 2nd Armored and 84th Infantry found only nine Germans in Laroche. The British, pushing against the nose of the salient, suddenly discovered nothing ahead of them, swept up 100 square miles in two days...
...valley in France, and who had been built up in German popular esteem as a successor to the late Erwin Rommel. When the U.S. Seventh Army held and shoved back the German bulge south of Bitche, Balck attacked at Rimling, on the west shoulder of the Bitche salient. He also renewed his attacks on the French from the Colmar pocket, drove to within ten miles of Strasbourg. Considering the relatively small forces involved, Strasbourg's recapture would be a juicy political plum for the Nazis...