Word: spearheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least temporarily. Heavy battles raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...
Before they stopped, China's woes had multiplied. The enemy had taken the base at Tushan, but before he did, more of China's precious supplies went up in smoke and flame. Ahead of the Jap spearhead, U.S. engineers set the torch to the base's munitions dumps. Thousands upon thousands of rounds of ammunition and fighting equipment of all kinds, stored up with infinite pain from the trickle of supply across the Hump from India, were blasted to destruction in a 48-hour holocaust...
Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt well knew which was the most vulnerable sector: the Aachen area where Lieut. General Courtney Hicks Hodges' U.S. First Army had already sunk a spearhead aimed at the Cologne plain. The Germans had watched for nearly two months as the Americans moved in 1,000 guns, massed a whole new army-the U.S. Ninth of tall, bald, bowlegged Lieut. General William H. Simpson...
...Meuse-Argonne offensive he had won the Distinguished Service Cross by leading his infantrymen in a crossing of the Meuse, by hanging on and protecting his cut-off position while others got across. His tenacity under fire turned a scouting mission into his brigade's offensive spearhead...
Next, De Gaulle. Reports that a French division under General Jacques Leclerc, hero of the Fighting French African campaign, would spearhead the Allied advance into Paris threw most Vichyites into a panic. But a few of the tougher-minded among them banked on a political fact: General Charles de Gaulle, who at last report was in Cherbourg, was no longer the head of an overseas resistance movement, but the leader of a great nation. Part of his job was to heal as well as to purge...