Word: aachen
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...
...under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides were at the apogee...
Weygand had no compensating means of distraction. The Germans' fuel supply was one vulnerable point, and R. A. F. bombers were sent again & again on carefully selected missions to bomb big oil depots at Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Hamburg. Hectoring the German supply line passing west between Bapaume-Cambrai and Amiens-Péronne, even if he could not break through, was urgent, and there Weygand massed artillery...
King Leopold and his Government had been aware that the German Army was again on the march as early as 9 p.m. the night prior. It was moving up from Dusseldorf and Cologne and Aachen to cross the Dutch appendix province of Limburg and strike at the Liege forts (see map, p. 23); from Trier to strike through Luxembourg at Arlon and Neuf-chateau. At 5:20 a.m. the bombs started thudding into Brussels from 100 raiders that sloped over in waves. They killed 41 civilians, wounded 82. One gutted a house across the square from the U. S. Embassy...
Editor Freeman made the Civil War in Spain clear to Richmond readers by comparing Talavera de la Reina to Burkeville Junction, Va. When German troops concentrated at Aachen, soon after World War II began, Dr. Freeman wrote in the News Leader...