Word: flanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack, General Eisenhower had hustled to a headquarters at Verdun, conferred with his top generals. In 15 minutes he had appraised the scope and probable aims of the push, taken his decisions, issued his orders. First Army reserves bore down from the north, compressed the salient's right flank, recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay. On the south, General Patton's armor blasted a corridor to Bastogne, pushed on to the north and then west to encircle the German tip south of Saint-Hubert. Patton also broadened his attacking front all the way east to Echternach...
...this week the northern flank appeared to have been stabilized, at least temporarily. Heavy battles raged for the wedges the Americans had been able to hold in the Monschau-Malmédy-Stavelot area and to the west of Saint-Vith. But they were perilous triangular salients. Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army had apparently stopped the spearhead closest to Liège, focal point of U.S. supplies...
...Narew river south of East Prussia's border. At week's end the Germans reported a Russian attack of great strength (Berlin said 27 divisions) at the northern end of the quiet front-against the 100-mile-wide, 60-mile-deep pocket in Latvia. Clearing of this flank might be a preliminary to action in East Prussia and north Poland...
...Leyte landing: "The strategic result of capturing the Philippines will be decisive. . . . The Dutch East Indies . . . Borneo, Malaya and Burma will be severed from Japan proper. . . . To the north, either flank will be vulnerable and can be rolled up at will." Two months ago a communiqué claimed: "The end of the Leyte-Samar campaign is in sight...
...soon as Jerry realized that we had established a bridgehead, he opened fire from either flank with small arms and shelled us from the woods a couple of hundred yards ahead. The Scotties hurried the prisoners to the canal, and made them paddle themselves across while they prepared for the counterattack and the push forward...