1 The troops were landed at a beachhead.

2 The troops quickly established a beachhead and were preparing to advance.

3 But music, not words, was the cultural beachhead of the new invasion.

4 In 1976 the counterculture still had a solid beachhead in Athens, Ohio.

5 The American forces suffered heavy casualties on this beachhead.

6 During the postwar years, it became a beachhead for Irish and Italian families fleeing the city's grittier precincts.

7 The town became a beachhead in the campaign to ban smoking outdoors.

8 General Lucas confined himself to occupying his beachhead and having equipment and vehicles brought ashore.

9 What they seem not to understand is how difficult it will be just to hang on to the beachhead they have made.

10 Westerners call what they have established out here a civilization,[] but it would be more accurate to call it a beachhead.

11 Commander Tazewell Shepard , the naval aide , gave a report , precise and bleak , on the beachhead.

12 They were attacked unexpectedly from both sides as soon as they landed at a beachhead.

13 The Germans were desperately trying to contain the Anzio beachhead.

14 Where the Allies had won the critical battle for air supremacy was not over the beachhead.

15 Landing of the first planned offensive force is 5 divisions, each division occupied a beachhead.

16 A well camouflaged Marine is giving silent instructions to a Marine Corps jungle-trained dog on the front lines of the beachhead in Bougainville, Soloman Islands, on Jan. 13, 1944 during World War II.

17 General Motors and Ford are rushing to establish a beachhead there.