Word: breakout
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...that swung the U.S. alternately into optimism and pessimism, and always the pendulum swung too far. When the Allies won and held their first foothold in Normandy, the war seemed all but over. When the first attempts to break out of the peninsula failed, gloom settled down. When the breakout came and the Germans were routed, it was in the bag. When the Allies pulled up in September, back came the gloom. When Generals Bradley and Devers resumed the offensive in November, there were Congressmen in Washington who said it might all be over in 30 days. Rundstedt...
...Bhamo (bypassed by the Mars Force), a Japanese suicide garrison had had enough after 28 days of siege by the Chinese 38th Division. Last week it was annihilated in an attempt at a breakout. Lieut. General Daniel I. Sultan, theater commander, tramped through the smoldering ruins of Bhamo's teakwood fortress, called it one of the strongest Jap positions in north Burma...
...supply a diversion for an attempted breakout from their pocket in northwestern Leyte, the enemy dropped parachutists from a score of planes (twin-engined transports resembling the DC-3) in the area west of Dulag, and especially around Burauen airfield. U.S. antiaircraft destroyed some of the planes, but about 200 paratroopers landed. Under Jap uniforms, some wore civilian clothes...
...fighting bore many points of resemblance to the hedgerow warfare in Normandy before the breakout. In bitterness and dreariness it was unexcelled. The stake was high: if the Allies could put Antwerp to speedy use, they might yet ship in enough supplies to launch a major drive across the Westphalian Plain toward Berlin before winter. The Nazis well knew this. They took out additional insurance by destroying Rotterdam, the greatest freight port of The Netherlands...
...shift from Bradley's to Hodges' command was made in mid-battle, without the grating of a gear. The battle plan for the Saint-LÔ breakout was Bradley's, but from there on the tactical decisions were up to Hodges. When Hodges took over, the First had two complicated plans to work out : 1 ) to slug in and carve a corridor for Patton's tanks to slip through, then hold the German counterattacks and keep the corridor open; 2) using its own armor, to swing a right hook to form the first trap...