Word: frontal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nettuno's beaches last week, the Allied Command tested the alternative to frontal assault. It worked. The Allies had found a short cut to Rome; they had also outflanked the enemy, massed to meet them in the south...
Italy. The Allies shattered the German line in Italy, fought their way through the mountains to easier but still difficult roads to Rome. If Allied commanders planned flanking attack by sea, rather than a frontal drive on the Holy City, the secret was well kept...
...Frontal Assault. One hour after midnight the Battle of the Volturno began. From the river's south bank, on both sides of Capua, the Fifth's artillery laid down the heaviest barrage of the Italian campaign. In thinner volume the German guns spoke back. A bright moon silvered the darkness. Under it, shellfire flashed red, tracers brushed glowing orbits, mortars chopped the river into a watery hell...
Other air-front news: > Against the Fortress and Liberator formations, the Germans are trying new defensive tactics. Three planes abreast, coming head on, swing from left to right to avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics: the bomber formations are protected by other Fortresses that carry no bombs (presumably fill their bays with extra tons of ammunition to fire at German fighters. A Nazi newscast drew an eloquent picture of battle over Germany: "Thus more than 1,000 U.S. airmen, covered by armored planes, are defending...
...From Sevsk northward, to the rear of Bryansk, whose powerful defenses have held up Red frontal attacks for many days; or from Sevsk to Konotop, and thence to Kiev and the Dnieper...