Word: wilhelmshaven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the start, he was no communiqué commando. He made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...
...Wilhelmshaven tried to carry on but admitted: "Transmission of news suffers from some difficulties connected with atmospheric and other interferences...
...Elbe. By this week it was clear where all the Allied armies were heading. Field Marshal Montgomery had thrown a left hook aimed for the North Sea and the submarine bases at Emden, Wilhelmshaven. He had columns within shelling range of Bremen. He punched his right hard & fast toward Hamburg, the biggest German port. If the Germans in the north counted upon a last stand in Denmark, or possible flight through it to Norway, Monty might soon scramble their ideas...
...machines-were some 100,000 troops of Field Marshal Walter Model's Army Group B. Rapidly pulling out of The Netherlands in a race against the British was Field Marshal Johannes Blaskowitz' Army Group H. The British were well on the road to Bremen, Hamburg and Wilhelmshaven. If they won the race, then Blaskowitz's fight was virtually over...
...made on the spot. Some other shots of the crew and their comrades were made at leisure, but from start to finish the film never puts on the deadening look of reenactment. The hope and fear on the faces of the flyers when they get their orders to bomb Wilhelmshaven are real hope and fear. The hope and anxiety of the ground crew, waiting through a long, pastoral afternoon for the plane's return are just as real. The joy of both groups when, late and limping, the Belle gets back loses none of its life-&-death resonance because...