Word: frontierisms
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Leaving the same trail of dead Nazis and sabot age which has been the subject of pictures since. Hitler invaded Austria, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...
...which Air Vice Marshal Coningham was directing all R.A.F. operations in the Western Desert. Although Rommel's retreat was orderly, neither Coningham nor General Montgomery had anticipated such a quick Axis collapse in Egypt. At the very least they expected the Germans to make a stand on the frontier. Coningham believed that the Axis would probably be able to make a stand in the triangle near El Aghéila. General Strickland says of Coningham: "There...
...phlegmatic German Army sergeant and private struggled up a rugged, snowbound pass in the Pyrenees last week, stopped on the frontiers of the tiny State of Andorra. "We have orders to respect your frontier," said the sergeant to the lone frontier guard. Then they laughed and talked of other things, probably not of the 15 European countries invaded by Adolf Hitler...
...vacation from Danzig, Artist Hélion next boarded a train to Cologne, got through two examinations of his false papers, mixed with a friendly carload of Nazi soldiers. He sneaked across the border to Belgium Then by stealing rides on trucks, Hélion reached the French frontier, crawled through vegetable gardens at dusk, evading patrols, and reached Paris...
...Captive, by Caroline Gordon, a wonderful and little-known story of the Kentucky frontier...