Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ninth Army has remained under the overall control of Field Marshal Montgomery's Twenty-first Army Group, in order that "Monty" might coordinate the northern offensives. The Canadian thrust which reached Cleve threatened to roll up Rundstedt's right flank by a drive down the west bank of the Rhine. That threat may be a diversionary help to Simpson. Allied air power is already helping him, and the grueling strain imposed by the Russians is helping most of all. If Eisenhower and Montgomery have made his army their chosen instrument, he may be the man who will finally...
...were less than 350 miles apart. Since Jan. 12 the distance between them had been almost halved by the Russian avalanche toward Berlin. The fighting in the west was only "skirmishing," in Russian eyes, but in the Nazi view it was a deadly menace. The Nazis called the Canadian thrust into Cleve "only a beginning"; they were anxiously watching the British and U.S. preparations on the Roer River (see below...
...There is a temptation to imagine the Red Army will be inside the German capital in a matter of days. . . . It is a temptation that should be resisted. . . . We should ask ourselves whether it is a very attractive military proposition for an army to thrust forward in a narrow spear across a wide, defended river line and make a frontal attack on one of the greatest single built-up areas in the world. Unless the Germans are really on their last legs, it would seem to be asking for trouble to do that, and I don't believe...
...question was: are the Germans on their last legs? If Marshal Georgy K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army suddenly threw caution to the winds and dashed for Berlin, the answer would be yes. Best guess: he would not. Although his frontal thrust toward the heart of the Reich made heartening headlines, military analysts watched his northern wing with increasing interest. That wing had probed to within 20 miles of Stettin. Paradoxically it was a greater threat to Berlin than the shorter thrust through the twin Oder River fortresses of Frankfurt and Küstrin, where the Germans...
Over the Border. Zhukov had also made dramatic advances. By this week his waves had lapped entirely around Poznan, 180 miles west of Warsaw. Two widening spears thrust over the Reich's borders, less than 80 miles from Frankfort on the Oder...