Word: frontally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defenders of Delme Ridge were well prepared for a frontal assault. Instead of that, Patton sent his 4th and 6th Armored Divisions to attack on the flanks...
...Russians might not attempt to take Budapest by frontal attack. But the forces moving northwest could wheel over to envelop the city from three sides, pounce down on Pest. Buda was in danger from a Russian force which was reported to have crossed the Danube far south in Yugoslavia, begun a march north on the west bank of the river. And northwest from Budapest the plain is flat...
...Frontal assault on the tower was impossible for the light-weaponed Americans. Like Indians around a blockhouse they harassed it with fire from trees, doorways, windows. At last three British tanks rumbled up after their 20-mile spurt from Eindhoven. As they arrived the Belvedere's guns spoke-and all three tanks were knocked...
...panicky things, but where he had the troops he fought fiercely. At points the going was worse for the Americans than it had been back on the Norman beaches. At one point the Germans used a "psychological tactic" borrowed from the eastern front-a shoulder-to-shoulder frontal assault by screaming, yelling infantrymen. The Indian-silent G.I. reaction: mow 'em down...
...center of the new line Bradley had already exploited his speed to get a frontal offensive going, headed east. He had pushed armored and infantry columns out of Rennes to the highway junction of Laval, 148 miles from Paris. Other columns swept down from Fougères to Mayenne, 137 miles from the capital. To the south another had cut to the east...