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...something fairly substantial to show for his first 30 days' work. He consolidated enough gains to put his heavy artillery in range of the main West-wall defenses in at least two spots of his own choosing: the Blies Valley (Zweibrücken) and the Lauter Valley sector. He claimed to have surrounded 60 German villages. He had Saarbrikken under control (it was too heavily mined to take frontally), had covered with his artillery most of the coal mines and heavy industries in the Saar Valley (immensely important to the German economy and not offset by Silesia), putting them...
...good as any pivot man in the Ivy League. Flanking him are a pair of Junior guards, Cape Burnam and Jim Dern, both of whom won their letters last year. This trio leaves little to be desired, and Bulldog enemies should find it difficult to avance far on this sector...
...line, the French advance from Perl in the direction of Trier progressed yard by yard. Then, this week, along the 80-mile Rhine front from Lauterbourg to Basle, the guns of the Maginot Line and the Westwall thundered at each other the first shots in that sector since the war began. As this activity lengthened into the night of its first 24 hours, throngs gathered on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, awed at the fireworks of a French aerial foray, apparently against the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, now devoted to building airplane engines. Onlookers counted 30 bombs, watched Nazi...
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