Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week the R. A. F., from its bases in Britain, arduously attacked German columns and concentrations from the rear as they smashed across the Somme-Aisne line toward Paris. More demonstrable than ever was a judgment passed coldly by the technical British trade paper, The Aeroplane...
However, the German eruption swept like a sharp scythe south of Amiens to the rear of the Armies in the north-eight or nine, armored divisions, each with about 400 armored vehicles of different kinds divisible into small, self-contained units...
...that it is no part of German strategy or character to lose momentum. As the mass bombing of France began this week, it was recognized as execution of the Douhet theory's most frightful phase: to cripple an enemy's factories, transportation, communication, and to demoralize his rear-area population, before smashing his army at the front. That smash, when it came to France, was expected at five points along the Somme-Aisne line, and through the Swiss corner, and almost certainly in combination with harrying action by a new belligerent Italy (see below...
Guards to the Rear. Perhaps King Leopold surrendered when and as he did because he knew or suspected that the British were about to withdraw, as they had from Norway, with their host's Army covering their rear. Certainly his surrender forced their immediate withdrawal. But it was an orderly withdrawal with the wounded sent first; a courageous, masterful rear-guard action conducted by General Lord ("Tiger") Gort in full cooperation with the French...
...formed the east wall of an escape corridor along the Yser Canal to the sea. The flower of their Army, the proud Guards regiments-Coldstream, Grenadier, Welsh, Irish, Scots-had to let their line fold back from the southeast while their artillery and remaining armored units covered the rear...