Word: spearheaded
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...spearhead force sped down the slope to the bridge entry. There was a flurry of shooting. A German gun was knocked out, some German soldiers killed. Then, warily, some of the Yanks ran onto the bridge. There was an explosion. A guard had touched off one of the charges. But it did little damage. More Americans raced on, seized two Germans on the bridge. Then the Americans were across. A few Germans fled to a tunnel piercing a hill. A few surrendered...
...long, narrow spearhead that Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov had thrust toward Berlin broadened out. While Zhukov paused, Marshal Ivan S. Konev hammered into line on his left. The Red armies were linked along the east bank of the Oder, their flanks more secure...
...battlefield east of Celles was a white silence, darkly blotched with corpses and wreckage. At Celles, three miles short of the Meuse River, the German spearhead which had reached 50 miles into Belgium was blunted and turned back...
...Break. Out of the leading Sherman's turret popped a bandaged head. The man with the bandage and the big shiner on his right eye yelled the proper password. He was Lieut. Colonel Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commanding the 4th Armored Division's rescue spearhead...
...south toward Bastogne and against the German flank in Luxembourg. Because of disrupted communication lines he switched command of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies from General Bradley's headquarters to the Twenty First Army Group commanded by Field Marshal Montgomery. Monty was to meet the German spearhead in the west and counterattack toward Patton from the north with British and U.S. divisions...