Word: bridgehead
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...second front in terms of an all-out, huge-scale offensive requiring forces comparable to those of the main German armies. But the immediate purpose of the second front-diversion from the Russian front-could be accomplished with a lesser effort, involving no more than 500,000 men. A bridgehead diversion, provided Britain can hold control of the air, might be enough to compel a major Nazi effort to head it off. Once established, the bridgehead could be used by more massive forces. Even if there were defeat-even another Dunkirk-the effort might or might not be worth while...
...Malaya was lost by default, as some correspondents reported last week, Burma was not. British and Indian troops fought for every bridgehead, constantly counterattacking. British, Indian, Australian, Canadian and U.S. pilots bombed and strafed the Japs. They met noticeably fewer Japanese planes; the Japanese apparently had sickened of their huge air losses in the first weeks of invasion...
Cried El Pampero, Axis propaganda daily operating under a freedom-of-press guarantee from Ramón Castillo: "Action Argentina, the bridgehead of Yankee warmongers in our country, must be dissolved by executive power...
...Adriatic coastal plain, the Italians succeeded in driving a bridgehead across the Kalamas River, and in sending patrols several miles beyond the river. But this week the Greeks, greatly aided by the rain, claimed to have succeeded in pushing the enemy back to the bridgehead...
Lieutenant Richard W. Annand's platoon ran out of ammunition while defending a blasted bridgehead on the Dyle River in Belgium. The Germans started across the river. Lieut. Annand ran forward alone into machine-gun fire, bombarded the enemy with hand grenades, drove them back with more than 20 casualties. Later that night, though wounded, he repeated the performance. When he was finally ordered to withdraw his platoon, he did so in good order, but found his batman (orderly) had been left behind. He went back, fetched the orderly in a wheelbarrow, then passed...