• A main line of resistance (MLR) is the most important defensive position of an army facing an opposing force over an extended front. It does not consist...
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    Their main line of resistance was four to five km behind the front, beyond the range of the enemy field guns, it was a continuous trench line – to prevent...
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    Fritz von Loßberg (category Knights of the Military Order of Max Joseph)
    face a second, main line of resistance, which included dugouts to accommodate all of the defenders of the first two lines. A third line incorporated shell-proof...
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    withdrew from most of its outpost line reducing the vulnerability of these isolated positions and strengthening the main line of resistance.: 52–5  On 5 May...
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  • and moved onto the Jamestown Line, the UN's Main line of resistance (MLR) across Korea. The segment of the Jamestown Line assigned to the 1st Marine Division...
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  • The Axis of Resistance (Persian: محور مقاومت Mehvar–e Moqâvemat; Arabic: محور المقاومة Miḥwar al-Muqāwamah) is an informal Iranian-led political and military...
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    reaching the main line of resistance on 11 January. By 12 January, Parker was forced to commit his reserve 21st Infantry in support of the 57th. Also...
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    part of the US 7th Infantry Division's defensive sector. Pork Chop Hill was among several exposed hill outposts along the UN Main line of resistance (MLR)...
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    the bulk of the forces from the 279th and 180th Infantry Regiments withdrew to the main line of resistance. Recollection from March 1952 of the Battle...
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    outposts called the Nevada Cities north of the Main Line of Resistance (MLR), the United Nations defensive line which stretched roughly around the latitude...
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  • (16 km) northwest of Heartbreak Ridge and part of the main line of resistance. ROK II Corps quickly released the 22nd Regiment of the ROK 3rd Division...
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  • scavenger, resistance and Tech-Com patrols and hold-outs to locate an officer of the Resistance known as Daniel Ramirez. Annihilation Line is downloadable...
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    second line to be held as a main line of resistance and jumping-off point for counter-attacks. Machine-guns were to be set up with overlapping fields of fire...
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    Omaha Beach (category Battles and operations of World War II)
    emphasis on this Main Line of Resistance (MLR) meant that defenses further inland were significantly weaker, and based on small pockets of prepared positions...
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    UN May–June 1951 counteroffensive (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the United States Army Center of Military History)
    fortified as the Main line of resistance and despite some limited attacks this would essentially remain the frontline throughout the next 2 years of stalemate...
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    1st Marine Division (category Divisions of the United States Marine Corps)
    massive redeployment of UN forces designed to put more Republic of Korea Army units on the Jamestown Line, the UN's Main line of resistance (MLR). The 1st Marine...
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    immediately north of Yoke Ridge, in order to defend the Hays Line and to allow US X Corps to attack the KPA main line of resistance, which was believed...
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  • Arizona Mid-life Refurbishment, another term for MTR MLR Train EMU Main Line of Resistance Muzzle-loading rifle Multiple rocket launcher Marine Littoral Regiment...
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    defended forward outposts beyond the Jamestown Line, the main line of resistance. Martinez's unit, the 2nd Platoon of A Company, inherited a position known as...
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    1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (category Panzer divisions of the Waffen-SS)
    fall of the two passes the main line of resistance of the Greek Epirus army was broken, and the campaign became a battle to prevent the escape of the enemy...
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    Operation Jupiter (1944) (category Land battles of World War II involving the United Kingdom)
    outposts down the north slope of Hill 112 with a main line of resistance along the Caen–Évrecy road. A second line ran from Feuguerolles westwards from the Orne...
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    Vicente Lim (category Foreign recipients of the Legion of Merit)
    began on Good Friday, April 3, 1942. The main attack was directed at the center of the main line of resistance, the sector covered by General Lim's 41st...
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    resistance group known as the Red Orchestra. Representations of artists, works of art, their contexts and backgrounds are included in the plot line and...
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    the task of breaching the KPA's main line of resistance. Within the 2nd Division there was considerable difference of opinion on the extent of the expected...
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  • During World War II, resistance movements operated in German-occupied Europe by a variety of means, ranging from non-cooperation to propaganda, hiding...
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    000 yd) deep behind listening posts, with the main line of resistance placed on a reverse slope, in front of artillery observation posts, which were kept...
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    Korea for their planned withdrawal east of the Naktong River. UN units would then establish a Main line of resistance behind what was to be called the Pusan...
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    identified a main line of resistance of the German 6th Army and 7th Army, which had been combined under the command of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria,...
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    Intelligence reports identified a main line of resistance of the German 6th Army and 7th Army (combined under Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria) close to the advanced...
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    Eingreif division (category German divisions of World War I)
    retain observation over the outpost zone. Behind the main line of resistance was a Grosskampfzone (main battle zone), a second defensive area 1,500–2,500 yd...
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