Word: break-through
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...that the Popular Front was responsible for lowering French plane production to 38 planes a month in 1937; that after the signing of the Berlin-Moscow pact French Communists sullenly sabotaged the defense industry; that the battalion of Communists in General Corap's Ninth Army caused the German break-through by turning tail as soon as the Nazis appeared...
Italian divisions have but two regiments each, 10,000 men. Three semi-mechanized celeri (swift) divisions are built around light tanks, horse-drawn and motorized artillery, with Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) on bicycles, motor trucks, motorcycles. Three armored divisions, and six armored regiments have heavier (eight-to-twelve-ton) break-through tanks, besides assault tanks, infantry in trucks, an engineer company with bridging equipment, anti-tank and anti-aircraft units...
...effort, by Sunday night Fuhrer Hitler had spent, according to French estimate, 400,000 lives since Tuesday, but still the young German masses surged forward, still their progress was aided by fresh mechanized fleets to supplement human flesh. Then the Germans began their double envelopment of Paris with a break-through from the Amiens region and up the Seine, west of the capital. That was when the Government left...
...Allies had learned things about Blitzkrieg and its accessories. It was reported, for example, that the turrets of the 70-ton German break-through tanks (which Germany got by her seizure of the Skoda munitions works in Czechoslovakia) are their vulnerable spot. The quality of German aircraft, the ability of German pilots (many of whom are sent up with minimum flight instruments, obliged to follow-their-leader) were not believed up to Allied par. Allies saw that inferior, half-trained troops were mixed in with the elite. For their own civilian Army ranks they now had a leavening of veterans...
Panzer units are in effect armored cavalry. After the break-through they move out ahead of the infantry to outflank the enemy and to reach and harass his rear. They influence the direction of the enemy's retirement, but all important is pressure by the masses of infantry...