Word: foothold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secure the beachheads of the Invasion, bombers, rocket guns, ponderous naval cannon will be needed-ihen infantry-borne bazookas, mortars, light assault guns to widen the foothold. Even before the beachheads are finally secured, field artillery will join...
...secure the beachheads of the Invasion, bombers, rocket guns, ponderous naval cannon will be needed-ihen infantry-borne bazookas, mortars, light assault guns to widen the foothold. Even before the beachheads are finally secured, field artillery will join...
...battles now being fought over Germany are aimed to destroy Nazi fighter plane strength and production. . . . [That] is sought so that when Allied ground and air forces seek to force a further foothold on continental Europe they will have to contend ultimately with the German ground force, not with the German ground and air forces...
...Freed the Dnieper, save for a tiny German foothold at Kherson...
...Road Back. In that winter of disaster, the Germans retreated some 400 miles, lost (according to Moscow) 1,200,000 men and 5,000 planes, gave up Vyazma, Rzhev, Kharkov, Belgorod, Rostov, a foothold in Voronezh. Manstein, retreating along the southern fringe of Russia, shrewdly caught advanced Russian tank columns in the March mud and out of fuel, recaptured Belgorod and Kharkov, subsequently wrote a sometimes brilliant, sometimes mistaken, always futile chapter in the tactics of retreat...