Word: ridgetop
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...Like Balboa. In Luxembourg, the new U.S. 17th Airborne Division and three other Third Army divisions moved up to a ridgetop road called "Skyline Drive," 1,500 feet high, whence they could look down across the Our River into Germany. It was not exactly like Balboa looking down on the Pacific. U.S. troops had been on that ridgetop before. This time they went down the other side and waded the icy river, to enter Germany at two points...
Into the Gully. The death struggle began on the town's outskirts. Some hundreds of British guns, firing an average of 450 shells each, loosed two two-hour barrages on the last gully and ridgetop before Ortona. The first barrage covered one battalion advancing at the rate of 100 yards every five minutes into the gully. The second barrage sprayed the ridgetop, where a lateral road linked with a crossroads on the way into the town...
...without his hands and feet touching shell holes. The Germans who died were piled like cordwood. Those who lived came out of their trenches to machine-gun the Canadian infantry. For three days the Canadians attacked and were counterattacked before the Germans gave up the gully, the ridgetop and finally the crossroads...