Word: strongpoint
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...opposition of two tactics, the lancing technique of the Russians and the strongpoint system of the Germans, that kept the front from knitting itself into the stabilized warfare of 1915-18 in France. From Leningrad, newly freed from the German, to Taganrog, there were at least ten separate pockets of German resistance, stoutly held (see map). The Russians surged between and around them, in great pincers. But the pincers were hard to close. The Germans held...
Retreat In Belgium. The quick fall of Eben Emael fortress, great new strongpoint of the Liege corner, was a heavy blow, whether brought about by a "secret weapon" (see p. 28) or sheer power. Three bridges across the Albert Canal went with it, one when an officer about to order the bridge's destruction was killed by a bomb and his successor hesitated to act. Another Belgian officer darted back over another captured bridge and blew himself up with it. Through these holes the Germans poured before the mass of the Allied force could reach the prepared outer defenses...