It was during this period that Hill was awarded the first Bar to his Distinguished Service Order, after supervising an assault by 12th Parachute Battalion on the town of Breville; the town dominated a long ridge near the Allied bridgehead, from which the 346th German Infantry Division launched repeated attacks.
In 1956 and 1957, the British and Commonwealth system of battle honours recognised participation in the Battle of Villers-Bocage by the award to 11 units of the battle honour Villers Bocage, for service in expanding the bridgehead from 8 15 June.
Already attractive for its low corporate tax rate, it can grow as the only English-speaking bridgehead from which American executives can grow subsidiaries into the European market.
On 31 March 1945, the 100th Infantry Division crossed the Rhine and moved south in the wake of the 10th Armored Division and then east across the Neckar River, establishing and enlarging a bridgehead from 4 to 11 April.
In 1964 Sotheby's acquired Parke-Bernet, the largest American fine arts auction house, creating a bridgehead from which to launch its global expansion.
Such a Palestinian state, he says, would swiftly become, like Lebanon under Hizbullah and Gaza under Hamas, another bridgehead from which Iran and its proxies would pursue their ambition to extirpate the Jewish state.It may now take weeks for Israel to choose a new government.
Clashes between Serb forces and the guerrillas have been particularly fierce in villages close to Kosovo's southern border with Macedonia, where NATO has been building a bridgehead from which a peacekeeping force could enter Kosovo (see article).
The French attempted to launch counter-attacks against the German-held bridgeheads, from 15 17 May, but the offensives fell victim to delay and confusion.
There they joined Polish and British paratroopers to secure a bridgehead for the advancing Strykers, which had come more than 500 miles (800 km) from their base in southern Germany to meet the enemy.
Without making further progress that day, the regiment returned to the Ghoraniyeh bridgehead for the night.
