Word: champlain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...would be targets for defending bombers and artillery. The shores of the lower St. Lawrence are sheer and bold, could be held thinly by determined, well-armed men. At Quebec is the beginning of the lowland country which widens out into the fertile Richelieu Valley and south toward Lake Champlain. Farther upstrean lies Montreal, Canada's metropolis and No. i seaport. To launch a land thrust to the south an invader would have to hold the Montreal-Quebec line as well as Nova Scotia and Newfoundland to protect his supply line...
...British captured the first U. S. S. Washington in 1776 (on Lake Champlain). With shells, torpedos and bombs, the U. S. Navy sank its fifth Washington in 1924. This sacrifice was then supposed to be the highest form of sanity; the U. S. people were glad to contribute an unfinished, 32,000-ton battleship to Disarmament. The U. S. having adopted new standards of sanity, the Navy last week launched its sixth Washington...
...expedition has to drag its heavy boats over forested hills to avoid the French on Lake Champlain; sloshes waist-deep in mosquito-infested swamps; forms a human chain to cross the rushing St. Francis River (actors were protected against chills by some 200 suits of watertight rubber underwear). Amidst repeated admonitions to caution, the Rangers make enough noise (once they explode a powder keg) to rouse half the Amerinds in North America. But the Abenakis pay them no mind. These obliging Indians have been on a bender the night before the raid, are sleeping it off when Rogers' Rangers...