Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Mexico City -Reader Dorantes is right on two counts: 1) The Alcazar did not fall; the late Webb Miller witnessed the end of the siege. 2) Its ten-week defense must be acknowledged one of the most heroic in modern history...
TIME, May 20, "Death of a Correspondent," p. 62: "He saw the Alcazar fall in the Spanish Civil...
...heroic thing about Franco's men is that the Alcazar did not fall. Or am I wrong...
...repeatedly expressed amazement at the Hitler machine's fitness and efficiency. They saw windrows of Allied but few German corpses, the German system being to bury their dead within an hour for reasons of morale as well as hygiene. Even before Dunkirk's final fall, masses of German troops began moving to the new southern front. German mechanics drove back long lines of abandoned Allied motor trucks, camouflaging them with their own blue-grey paint, loading them with salvaged parts such as batteries, tires, spark plugs or with captured gasoline and other supplies. German engineers were already...
That was the prospect a week ago, but another blow which might have proved final was still to fall upon...