Word: antwerp
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...Antwerp was taken from the Germans virtually intact. But now almost half the city's buildings have vanished in rubble and dust. Most of those that still stand are askew on their foundations, with walls leaning and cracked. In all the city there is not a window pane left; boards cover the gaping apertures of buildings where people still live and work...
...Germans swore they would deny Antwerp to the Allies as a port. In Belgian cities along the V-bomb routes, sirens wail frequently, as the noisy V-1s pass overhead. But no sirens sound in Antwerp, the bombs' principal target. In Antwerp men never leave the ack-ack guns, the city's defense against the V-1s. Against the faster-than-sound V-2s, there is no defense...
These were a few of the details of a story, carefully withheld for security reasons, which the Army only began to let out last week. Back from a trip to Antwerp, TIME Correspondent Edward Lockett this week brought a fuller story...
A.S.F. Front. The Allies were determined to use the port. It was close to the fighting front. Cherbourg, LeHavre, Marseille were useful (and still are), but the shortest route to the front lay through Antwerp. As soon as Antwerp's port, damaged by the fleeing Germans, was opened again, the Allies lost no time in putting it to work. British supply troops and men of the U.S. Army Service Forces moved...
...commandant of the port is leisurely, drawling 46-year-old Colonel Doswell Gullatt, who graduated from West Point in 1918. Gullatt and his men have become fatalists. Visitors move through the area with fluttering hearts, get out as fast, as they can. Some combat troops, sent to Antwerp for a "rest," stayed one day, wanted to be sent back to the front. For Gullatt's men, Antwerp is the front...