Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...committed suicide "following a definite invitation of the French High Command," reported Benito Mussolini's newspaper Popolo d'ltalia, reviving the romantic tradition which demands that an officer who fails disastrously be handed a bottle of brandy and a loaded pistol...
...opinion, of course, as an American citizen. But he has no more right to impress his opinions on the student body, or any part of it, and indeed, not as much, as the students have to voice their views by the most direct, orderly and effective method at their command...
...German High Command, announcing the occupation of Dunkirk, claimed the capture of 40,000 Allied troops in the siege-wrecked coastal town. And Hitler, describing it as the end of the greatest battle of destruction of all times, asserted that the Allied defeat in Flanders assures a German victory...
Above, on the far right, dive bombers working with the Panzer command have blasted an airport and are landing parachutists to demoralize the enemy rear. Center, the enemy bunkers and pillboxes, strafed from the air, are being attacked by ground troops with anti-tank guns and flamethrowers. Engineers are repairing blasted bridges and building new pontoon bridges to carry tanks across the river. Lower left, tanks of various types wait in hiding while on the hill above a radio car coordinates the battle and the supply train waits to move...
Banse Plan. In an invasion the German Air Force would have the task of razing the naval bases at Harwich, Sheerness, Chatham, Ramsgate, Dover, Portsmouth, Southampton, Cowes, Plymouth (see map, p. 18), Britain's Fleet air arm. Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force, and anti-aircraft batteries would have to protect Britain's naval bases as best they could. Last week's preliminary Nazi bombings in Essex and Yorkshire were possibly to test and spot these defenses. German coastal cannon planted at Calais, Cap Gris Nez. Boulogne might aid in trying to reduce the British bases...