Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...deep in badges and baggage, bunting and buttons. As these delegates got ready for their trip to Philadelphia, to the Republican National Convention, some of them at least were aware that they might be on their way to make history. The U. S.. distracted by events overseas, looked forward to the convention with somewhat less excitement than two months ago. Not so the candidates, nor the delegates...
...After four days of furious fighting, 40 fresh divisions of German infantry and hundreds more tanks had joined in. East of Rethel, which was pounded only by artillery at first, a massive infantry assault plunged this week into the Argonne Forest, while an armored prong on the west pushed forward at the battle's outset, reached and crossed the lower Seine south of Rouen. Clouds of parachute troops swarmed down on the plain of Champagne, south of Reims. As German operations developed, the Battle of France took its place as easily history's hugest and, for France, most...
Said he: "The future of France depends upon your tenacity. Hold tight to the soil of France. . . . Look only forward." People who saw him in action described him as going about his work methodically at a kitchen table in a whitewashed room of a cottage near the front. As the battle reached crescendo, he declared to his men: "The enemy has suffered considerable losses. Soon he will reach the end of his effort...
Below Amiens and Peronne, these tactics caused the destruction of hundreds of German tanks in the first four days and the French gave up only a few miles of low ground as they withdrew forward units under terrible battering. But at the line's western end, below Abbeville, where thin British regiments sweated under a torrid summer sun, a double armored column punched swiftly across the Somme delta to the Bresle River, then down to Forges-les-Eaux, a little spa east of Rouen. The Allied line closed behind these raiders, whose objective was to cut Paris' communications...
...storm and we march ever forward...