| It glides to a momentary stop over the edge of the enemy beachhead, then strafes its way across, shooting dangerously close to our own troops. |
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| By the end of June, excluding an emergency landing strip, ten airfields had been built in the beachhead area. |
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| The beachhead stretched two thousand yards from Klandasan to Stalkudo, divided into sections designated Red, Yellow and Green beaches. |
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| Making its way forward under heavy fire, the regiment secured the beachhead and dug in. |
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| A typical example of dropping or landing troops next to the target involves the seizing of a beachhead for subsequent amphibious landing. |
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| The division performed commendably throughout the campaign and was notably brilliant in the initial landings and defense of the beachhead. |
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| The Roman landing was again hindered by the weather, but this time a properly defended beachhead was constructed, to protect the disembarkation. |
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| Every artillery weapon on the beachhead fired thousands of rounds upon the enemy as fast as the gunners could load and shoot. |
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| American missions and RAF operations continued in support of the beachhead. |
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| The Allies consolidated their beachhead positions and prepared to move inland. |
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| First there was the need to keep supplied the troops who carried out the initial landings and established the beachhead. |
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| On the eastern flank of the Sword beachhead, Lieutenant Colonel Otway's paratroopers are dug in outside Amfreville which is heavily defended. |
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| This solid beachhead will support our advance into new territories, enabling us to grow our footprint. |
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| The English reached the other side and could create a beachhead into which Edward fed more soldiers. |
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| Fifty years later, we consider the disposition of another beachhead built by Canadian ingenuity. |
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| Nor are attempts at establishing a Randian beachhead in the curriculum entirely new. |
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| The photographers were on the beachhead long before the Marines. |
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| By the end of the day, some 100,000 soldiers and officers of the Allied armies concentrated on the beaches of Normandy and proceeded to widen the beachhead. |
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| Limp and trembling, she clung to my neck as we sprinted past the beachhead fray. |
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| Your team is given an objective like capturing important secret papers, capturing an occupied beachhead, or holding off the enemy from a strategic position. |
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| The Allied player uses his two naval units in the two attacks to try and breakout of the beachhead. |
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| This operation costs one Special Action per area invaded and requires an available beachhead marker for each area invaded. |
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| Even though we are leaders on this market, our activity remains limited, but it has enabled us to create a beachhead. |
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| The beachhead objective was taken and the Canadians moved inland to seize Bernières. |
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| If brought in by Sea-transport, they must wait for the beachhead to be established. |
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| By establishing a presence in foreign markets, Canadian companies create a beachhead for market expansion. |
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| The Soviets and Axis cannot have more than one beachhead in play at a time, and the Soviets may only amphibiously invade in the Black Sea. |
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| With the sizeable Argentine force at Goose Green out of the way, British forces were now able to break out of the San Carlos beachhead. |
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| This beachhead would serve to open the door for further contracts. |
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| Incurring the wrath of the country's most popular actor, for good reason, was the equivalent of hiring a plane to drag a banner of disreputability over its beachhead. |
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| Now, having secured the beachhead, he has to hold it and even advance. |
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| But if Google wants to progress in the social arena, and Apple in location-based services, they have to make bold bets, and in both cases they have at least gained some sort of beachhead. |
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| Jamaica's police chief has studied in Beijing as well as the United States. Yet it is hard to see the Caribbean becoming a Chinese beachhead on America's doorstep a mirror image of Taiwan. |
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| Britain says these are routine missions, and refuses to comment on an Argentine claim that a nuclear submarine is in the vicinity. In this section Two ways to make a car A Chinese beachhead? |
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| We are well aware of the flow of arms, resources and foreign fighters into Somalia and of the threat that Al-Qaida might establish a beachhead there. |
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| His success continued: on one day he destroyed three Focke Wulf 190s and another Messerschmitt 109 as the Luftwaffe was attempting to stop the U. S. Army from establishing a beachhead at Anzio, in southern Italy. |
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| By discarding the intellectual property and dismissing the workforce, Canada threw away a significant beachhead in the future of aviation that could have benefited our citizens for many generations to come. |
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| Sensing the westward shift of the Canadian economy, Pease's first bold move was to establish a beachhead in central Canada to harness the nation's emerging corporate business. |
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| By August 1944, the Allied Command asked First Canadian Army to clear the German defenders from the French channel seaports and towns north of the Normandy beachhead. |
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| Immunization, he said, holds perhaps the greatest promise of sustainability among health interventions and can serve as a beachhead for a broad range of essential health services. |
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| What is needed however is to establish a beachhead in a large country such as China and Indonesia, for example, and in such ideologically closed countries such as Vietnam and Myanmar and North Korea. |
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| Labienus was left at Portus Itius to oversee regular food transports from there to the British beachhead. |
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| By dawn the next day, they had established a secure beachhead from which to conduct offensive operations. |
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| A long grinding campaign six weeks long followed as American, British, and Canadian forces were slowly built up in the beachhead, and German forces slowly worn down. |
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| Modern historians have pointed out that one reason for Harold's rush to battle was to contain William's depredations and keep him from breaking free of his beachhead. |
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| His intelligence information was poor, and although he gained a beachhead on the coast, he could not advance further, and returned to Gaul for the winter. |
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