Word: aachener
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...General Erwin Rommel's honor was vindicated when a German woman got three months in Aachen concentration camp for remarking: "I had to run faster than Rommel did in Africa...
...Plymouth it was good to hear Brooklyn-born R.C.A.F. Pilot Charles Honychurch say of Cologne: "It was like looking down the mouth of hell." To those whose kids had been taken from them and evacuated to the country it was good to hear of mass evacuations from Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Mainz. To those who had seen their St. Martin-in-the-Fields smashed it was sad but good to hear of Jerry's St. Maria im Capitol being pocked...
...Ehrlich entrenched him in the field of cinema biography, growls pleasantly through Reuter's tribulations. He has to buck the artistic irresponsibility of his poet-partner Max (Eddie Albert) and the indifference of rubber-skinned bankers before he proves that pigeons can pack the news from Brussels to Aachen quicker than the fleetest stagecoach...
...under cover of dark and big guns. That a nest of these big guns festered at Cap Gris Nez, where the Channel is narrowest. That behind the vessels and guns thousands of troops were being moved up; and behind the troops supplies were based on Osnabrück, Mannheim, Aachen, Mann, Krefeld. That the invasion might come from any direction, not excepting Eire. That Hermann Göring was personally directing the Luftwaffe and that Commander in Chief of the Land Forces Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had moved up to "inspect" troops. That the tides were at the apogee...
Weygand had no compensating means of distraction. The Germans' fuel supply was one vulnerable point, and R. A. F. bombers were sent again & again on carefully selected missions to bomb big oil depots at Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Hamburg. Hectoring the German supply line passing west between Bapaume-Cambrai and Amiens-Péronne, even if he could not break through, was urgent, and there Weygand massed artillery...