A beachhead is a temporary line created when a military unit reaches a landing beach by sea and begins to defend the area as other reinforcements arrive...

and Free French navies. The primary objective at Omaha was to secure a beachhead 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep, between Port-en-Bessin and the Vire river...

Look up beachhead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A beachhead is the line created when a military unit reaches a beach by sea and begins to defend...

Tarawa Beachhead is a 1958 war film directed by Paul Wendkos. It stars Columbia Pictures contract star Kerwin Mathews in his first leading role and the...

For three days (20–22 July 1974), heavy fighting took place around the beachhead between Turkish and Greek Cypriot forces. The Turkish task force set sail...

the Canadians at Juno. To meet the conditions expected on the Normandy beachhead, special technology was developed, including two artificial ports called...

theatre, moved every unit he could spare into a defensive ring around the beachhead. His artillery units had a clear view of every Allied position. The Germans...

Beachheads in Space is an anthology of science fiction stories edited by American writer August Derleth. It was first published by Pellegrini & Cudahy...

Beachhead! is a 1954 American Technicolor war film based on U.S. Marine Corps Captain Richard G. Hubler 1945 novel I've Got Mine about World War II. It...

enemy airplane when he goes to a bluff to view the aerial attack on the beachhead. Tyne walks to the woods and there he discovers that three other men have...

Beachhead to Berlin is a 21-minute Technicolor film about the Normandy landings, a Vitaphone short produced by Warner Bros. and released on December 15...

檜扇菖蒲/ヒオウギアヤメ and called 'hiougi-ayame'. It has several common names, including 'Beachhead Iris' (because it is tolerant of salt air or maritime conditions, encountered...

Beach Head (also released as Beachhead or Beach-Head) is a fictional character from the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toyline, comic books and animated...

Italian armistice.[citation needed] Because the distance from the Allied beachheads precluded any substantial Allied support of the airborne troops, Brigadier...

Guadalcanal and in the central Solomons, the landings were intended to secure a beachhead with the purpose of establishing several bases from which to project air...

Anzio Beachhead is a board wargame published by Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI) in 1969 that simulates the Battle of Anzio during World War II, when...

Beachhead, subtitled "A Game of Island Invasions in the South Pacific 1942–1944", is a board wargame published by Yaquinto Publications in 1980 that simulates...

empty spot was filled by guest star Claudia Black, who would leave in "Beachhead" and return for the last two episodes of Season 9, which involved her...

tracked or wheeled vehicles and troops from amphibious assault ships to beachheads or piers. The Golfo de Tribugá-class landing craft is an LCU developed...

and M Squad. His film credits included Thundering Jets in 1958, Tarawa Beachhead in 1958, Lone Texan in 1959, and Gunfighters of Abilene in 1960. Farr...

Duty: Elite was an online service created by the Activision subsidiary Beachhead Studios for the multiplayer portion for the first-person shooter video...

were disabled using specialised tanks. The Allies were able to establish beachheads at each of the five landing sites on the first day, but Carentan, Saint-Lô...

surrounding the major Japanese base at Rabaul. The intention was to establish a beachhead on Bougainville, within which an airfield would be built. The naval battle...

General Verne D. Mudge (Commanding General, First Cavalry Division), inspecting the beachhead on Leyte Island, 20 October 1944 with a crowd of onlookers...

said that Russian forces were deploying thousands of marines from this beachhead. The Russian 22nd Army Corps approached the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power...

Hennepin County, Minnesota in March 1943. As a rifleman, he landed on Anzio Beachhead on January 22, 1944, with the 2nd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th...

vehicles to participate in the planned counterattack against the Allied beachhead, Unternehmen Fischfang. This failed in its objective, but the battalion...

phase, in which American troops landed and held the perimeter around the beachhead at Torokina, lasted from November 1943 through November 1944. The second...

action two guns of the battery of four 88-mm. that were shelling the beachhead. Unswerving in his determination to complete his self-appointed and extremely...

as Halls of Montezuma (1950), Sam Fuller's Fixed Bayonets! (1951) and Beachhead (1954). In 1954, he guest-starred in an episode of the NBC legal drama...