Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanks and infantry, including ski troops, within 48 hours had repeatedly broken through the outer line of the rectangle, flowed around the German's mighty fortress at Rzhev and all but isolated some 75,000 German troops there. Very near Rzhev, where Red Army troops had won a foothold last September, they attacked the suburbs of the city itself...
Just at the time when Rommel's remnants were fleeing before the British in Egypt (see p. 27), U.S. troops landed along the whole coast line of Vichy Morocco and Algeria. Instantly Hitler's already serious problem of trying to keep an Axis foothold in Africa became just twice as serious...
...whole Axis foothold in Africa is likely to collapse. Allied troops can attack Triopoli by the easy route from Tunis. In that event Rommel, running before the British, cannot use the 600 miles of virtually waterless desert between Bengasi and Tripoli as a refuge in which to recover his strength-as he did last year...
...battle Jap fleet units took a terrific pounding. To U.P. Reporter Joe James Custer the great balls of flame being volleyed back & forth over the blue court of the ocean turned the scene into "a tennis match in hell." Thrown back when they tried to regain a foothold on Guadalcanal Island, the Japanese were trapped by a counterattacking flanking force, the sea at their rear and U.S. forces covering the Tenaru river (see cut, p. 34). When U.S. tanks attacked, there was nothing for the Japs to do but surrender (which few did) or be crushed and blown to bits...
Another raider group swept through the extensive area westward of the Marines' perimeter, hunting down a Japanese force that has a foothold there. A half-dozen Japanese were flushed and shot. The rest fled beyond range and down the coast...