Word: bienwald
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...Valley salient to relieve French pressure on Zweibrücken. A mass of fast light German tanks was said to have been smashed up at the French wire by anti-tank fire, the wreckage of 20 of them blocking the passage of heavier German tanks. German counterattacks in the Bienwald east of Bitche were evidently more successful. At the northwest end of the line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall...
...advancing tanks. Also encountered were robot machine guns, operated electrically by remote control. Swarming through the Warndt Forest between Saarbrücken and Saarlautern, the French found the woods "full of destruction and traps of all kinds." But by week's end that forest and the Bienwald farther east was theirs. Several Moroccan regiments and at least one British division were said to be in the Saar advance. The fighting got down to bayonets...
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