Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...border. Konev's army was already on German soil in Silesia, was within 28 miles of Breslau and pressed close upon Oppeln, both on the Oder and key points in the Reich's second most important , coal and steel area. Crossings there would set up a flank for future development of a strike to the inner Reich...
...Allied attempt to flank the Westwall at Arnhem had failed. Germany's main eastern battlefront, along the Vistula River, was relatively quiet. Slowly, Eisenhower's margin of superiority in the west was worn down in frontal attacks against formidable defenses. V-E day was set back to 1944's end-then to May 1945. It was clear that the western Allies would need a lot more muscle to beat down their rugged, obdurate and resourceful...
With no obstacles except the terrain (part sandy, part marshy), Krueger's men quickly pushed inland, consolidated their separate beachheads, put Lingayen airfield into service, and started south on good highways toward Manila. For days, the Japs faded away ahead of them. On the western flank, the Agno River was early crossed. In the center, where the river's great bend made a logical position for a determined Japanese stand, it was crossed again at week's end, still against only token opposition. On the east, there was stiff local resistance, but if the Jap had been...
...Bernard Law Montgomery last week went Supreme Commander "Ike" Eisenhower's praises. The doughty little Briton had taken over swiftly, had acted swiftly .to bring the weight of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies, the British Second and Canadian First Armies to bear on Rundstedt's north flank. In Washington, President Roosevelt explained that the switch in command was a regular field operation, made necessary when the German thrust split Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley's Twelfth Army group...
...through the 30-mile-wide ring the Russians had thrown around the ancient capital, captured Esztergom, riverside anchor of the Red Army front south of the Danube. They were taking desperate chances, for north of the river the Russians were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary, had growled: "We don't care if ten Budapests are destroyed, provided we can save one Vienna...