Word: overran
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...Eighth's veterans said that the barrage reminded them of El Alamein. Under its shield they went forward and uphill, overran a heavy line of Jerry dugouts and trenches, took hundreds of prisoners. Elated Monty sent his men congratulations: "In two days you wrested from the enemy the ridge . . . which was the whole framework of [his] winter line on the Adriatic. . . . A very fine performance...
...sleeve, said: "Well, I think we're winning, but the bastards have got a lot of bullets left. I think we'll clean up tomorrow." The Colonel was right. On the third day the Japs began to fall apart. The Marines advanced inland at a mounting pace, overran Betio's valuable airfield, bottled the Japs in the island's tail...
...bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
...version, the principal character is called Kitty Beaurepos. She was the daughter of a London banker, kept a small dress shop, lived in a pleasant apartment near the Arc de Triomphe. When her husband died, Mrs. Shiber shared Kitty's apartment for three tranquil years. Then the Nazis overran France and the two women tried to flee by automobile. The Nazis overtook them, ordered them back to Paris...
Order from Berchtesgaden. The Germans were in Sofia to bolster the Festung's uncertain Balkan battlement. Once the Allied invasion armies overran the Italian heel, they would stand 50 miles from the Balkans' Adriatic flank. Chafing Allied forces waited to spring from eastern Mediterranean shores into the Aegean. Inside the Balkan Peninsula 50,000,000 people, hopeful or frightened, stirred...