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  • n  a railroad depot in a theater of operations where military supplies are unloaded for distribution
  • n  the end of the completed track on an unfinished railway

  • Scene of the biggest battle was a slender salient of India that points sharply into East Pakistan some 20 miles west of the Pakistani city of Jessore, an important railhead .
  • They had withdrawn hastily, scarcely offering rear-guard resistance, apparently willing to fall back 120 miles to Matrh, the railhead from Alexandria, where the main British .
  • On the winding road to Shimla from the railhead, Kalka, there were sandbagged checkpoints.
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  • 94th BSB keeps mission rolling during brigade leave
    It was a hot day at the Fort Polk railhead as Alpha Company, 94th Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division soldiers began loading containers onto cargo trucks.
    June 16, 2013 - Leesville Daily Leader

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