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Of deepest concern to the Allies were German activities on the upper reaches of their Westwall. As far north as Wesel and Emmerich, where the Rhine turns west to enter the Netherlands, workers were observed completing casemates and tank traps opposite the neutral Dutch soil. Why? Near Aachen (Aix-la...
Belgium was suspiciously alert last week but denied having taken yet her most drastic defense step of all: pulling plugs in the Albert Canal to impede any German advance with a flood. The Dutch, however, did say they were flooding their country, at least experimentally, around Utrecht. Much weaker than...
As they were located, each pill box, block house, tank trap or tank obstruction was shelled, then rushed by light tanks and infantry. One after one they were destroyed, the beleaguered German advance squads often blowing them up before scuttling back to their heavy forts. Behind them they left land...
By Land. All down the 250-mile Maginot Line, heavy guns started talking at dawn Monday. By nightfall of the first day the French were believed to have launched two high-powered flanking attacks, one at the "Burgundy Gate" or "Belfort Gap" just above the Swiss border, another into the...
But its drooping elms, gardened avenues, gingerbread architecture, the little fanelike spring houses, the old horse-drawn traps and flies pulled up along the main street, and above all, the shady racing park with the thoroughbreds circling under the linden back of the clubhouse before the races?all this makes...