Word: breakout
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...Armored landed at Oran, rumbled through to Tunisia. At Sidi bou Zid it was thrown back on its wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...
...favorite story with his officers is how the General stopped the rain after the Rundstedt breakout last December. Rundstedt's offensive was blessed by soupy days at its start. No planes flew. Tankmen, called on to drive 80 miles in a night, could not find the enemy in the endless drizzle. By the third day Patton, who can be reverent and blasphemous in the same breath, called one of the Third's chaplains. The reported conversation...
This week the Remagen bridgehead area had grown to 144 square miles. As the beachhead at Anzio had been, Remagen was a pistol jabbed into the Nazi flank. Also like Anzio, the breakout would probably be timed with attacks elsewhere...
...seasoned armies. Direct offspring of Britain's famed Eighth (which Monty rolled from El Alamein to Tunis, and which is now bogged down in Italy), the Second had the hard job of holding the anchor at Caen, in Normandy, while Bradley's men made their spectacular breakout. The Second now carries the main burden of British hope and British pride in western Europe. It has had no full-scale action since it pushed the Germans behind the Maas River last autumn...
After the Allied breakout from Nor mandy, the Ninth's first action was a swing into Brittany, while the First and Third wheeled left to liberate northern France. Later the Ninth accepted the surrender of Major General Erich Elster, Nazi commandant of southwestern France, with 20,000 enemy troops. After it captured Brest, the Ninth disappeared from the public eye, and apparently from the German eye as well, until it slammed into action north of Aachen. In the grinding progress toward the Roer, it got its first solid battle experience...