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...Washington came five reports from, dissimilar European sources, each stating that Gamelin had been executed, as had also General Andre Georges Corap, who had commanded the French Ninth Army at the vital Ardennes sector of the Maginot Line extension when the Nazis broke through...
...next day there was another alarm: 160 planes. The day after that there were 160 again. The city smoldered. The foreign quarter, Chungking University, Government buildings, the teeming shopping sector-these were the "military objectives" the Japanese announced they had attacked. On the fourth day 54 planes came; on the fifth, 52. The U. S. gunboat Tutuila was narrowly missed. The American Methodist Mission...
These are Rouen, on the Seine between Paris and the sea, Compiegne and Soissons, within 25 miles of each other on the Oise Valley sector north and slightly east of Paris, and Rheims, just above the river Marne, east and slightly north of Paris...
...them by the Germans above and below Trondheim. Its main effort was to get ashore and stake first military claim to the northwest coast of mid-Norway. Before the week ended the issue became whether German-held Trondheim was to be a beleaguered post in an Allied-held sector, or the key post of a German-held mid-Norway which the Allies had rashly invaded...
...first time in six months Allied anti-aircraft fire began to work effectively in this sector. . . . The long arm of the French heavy artillery . . . became a serious threat to the German pontoon-building operations...