Word: bridgehead
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...bridgehead itself the Allies have a very strong army and superiority in both artillery and tanks. Although spells of bad weather interrupt from time to time the deliveries of supplies, the amount landed . . . substantially exceeds the schedule prescribed. ... All battles are anxious as they approach the climax, but there is no justification for pessimism...
Russia. Between the Pripet Marshes and Leningrad, the Red Army smashed into the enemy in a new offensive, moved 19 miles on a 50-mile front in five days. At Kherson, 640 miles to the south, it drove the enemy from his bridgehead on the Dnieper's south bank. Question for Germans: Where would the big blow fall...
...Kherson, 640 miles to the south, the Germans withdrew from their bridgehead on the south bank of the frozen Dnieper...
...from the Eighth. Montgomery attacked in the Montgomery manner. On a bridgehead across the swollen Sangro River he massed his British, Indian and New Zealand troops, some still bearing the tan of Africa and Sicily. Then he lined up his artillery. All one day the guns thundered; between breakfast and tea 50,000 shells gouged the Germans crouching behind mines and barbed wire on the ridge above the valley. Clearing weather enabled the Allied Tactical Air Force to help: nine waves of light bombers, 50 formations of fighters and fighter-bombers raked the enemy positions...
Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson appeared for the defense. "The War Department is proud of Canol," he declared. As for its exorbitant cost, "one might as well criticize the cost of capturing the Salerno bridgehead by stating that the land acquired was worth only a few dollars an acre...