Word: channelize
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...Allied flank but acquisition of bases for planes and submarines much closer to Great Britain than his present bases, for intensified warfare upon British shipping and the supply line of the British Expeditionary Force in France. With some 200 miles cut from their round trips to English Channel naval bases and industrial centres, Nazi bombers could be given fighter escorts, and fuel would be conserved. Should Britain go to The Netherlands' aid, her aid to France would be weakened by just so much...
Germany's first move, no doubt, would be a mass air attack aimed at all the Dutch airports, especially those along the Channel which might serve any power coming to The Netherlands' rescue. The Dutch Air Force contains not more than 300 planes, two-thirds of them old, though the pilots are heady and capable. Anti-aircraft defense is weak. Ground troops total less than 100,000 trained men, with 280,000 green reserves. So long as she did not tackle Belgium's Albert Canal and "Little Maginot" lines, and unless Belgium moved fast indeed to meet...
Only one boat slid out of New York's harbor as the President signed his proclamation - the 5,029-ton freighter Black Gull, of the Black Diamond Lines, bound for Rotterdam and Antwerp via the English Channel. But within 48 hours the Maritime Commission had tentatively approved an application from the United States Lines to transfer registry of nine ships to the Republic of Panama. Under Panamanian registry they could go merrily on carrying cargoes to Europe's belligerents...
...aerial reconnaissance cameras. Another theory of how he got in is that he disguised his superstructure to resemble a British submarine and boldly followed in the wake of a returning British ship, copying her recognition flash signals as they passed guardian destroyers. Or Prien may have picked out a channel, perhaps through Switha Sound, so close to shore that it was deemed by the British unthinkably dangerous and not worth mining or netting. But his own account of the adventure pointed most strongly to the eastern entrance of Scapa Flow, through narrow Holm Sound, where rocks and wrecks block...
...last week some 200,000 men of the British Expeditionary Force were across the Channel and safely in place. They continued arriving by night, three or four transports at a time, without interruptions. German submarines and the great German Air Force did not even throw a leaflet at them-just as the Allies did little to prevent the Germans from bringing up hundreds of thousands of men and tons of supplies to man the West-wall...