Word: spearheaders
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...soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps is the spearhead of our first line of defense. Each division is a self-sufficient unit, containing field artillery, infantry, and aviation. Its functions range from guarding navy yards to dispatching expeditionary forces in support of the fleet. Students who sign up with the Marines just because it is a convenient method...
...final battle with General Erwin Rommel's force. At Agedabia, where Rommel is hanging on, both sides maneuvered and skirmished like fighting cocks. In an attempt to break Ritchie's grip, Rommel sent a tank unit against the British. The British tanks met the German spearhead, claimed the destruction of 22 of Rommel's prized tanks, the damage of 20 others. British Hussars mopped up five truckloads of German infantry after the scrap. But the Axis boasted the destruction of 74 British tanks and armored cars...
...shot down by U.S. soldiers. From the fringe of the gulf black columns of smoke rose. The U.S. Army had burned its gasoline dumps. It fell back in orderly fashion through villages where the Filipino civilians cheered and showed the "V" with their fingers. The Jap threw an armored spearhead east toward the islands' summer capital at Baguio. U.S. forces withdrew to save damage to the Philippines' most beautiful city...
...short, the Russians' counterstroke was not yet a great Russian victory from a military point of view. They had broken the Nazi spearhead that had taken Rostov and forced it to flee west for safety. In so doing they canceled out all the work the Germans had done in that area since early October. It came as a very embarrassing riposte to Hitler, who had said unequivocally that Russia was already beaten. It showed that although great Soviet forces were tied down in defense of Moscow, the Russians could recover quickly and mount a real offensive...
...from the south plowed Walter Krueger's troops, between the Red River on the east, the Sabine (boundary of Louisiana and Texas) on the west. Behind the spearhead of infantry, headed by engineers, the Blues' Second Armored Division, most experienced of U.S. Panzer units, chafed in bivouac...