Word: antwerp
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...Antwerp people close doors softly and talk in low voices. Hollow-eyed citizens, clinging to their homes, skulk through the ruined streets. Antwerp is a city of suspense-until suspense is broken by the thunder of guns and the put-put of V-1 robot bombs...
...Ford Motor Co. plants in Antwerp and Passy (France) were badly damaged by Allied bombs. Ford plants in Yokohama and Shanghai are likely to be more rubble before Fordmen see them again...
...Chrysler Corp.'s once bustling assembly plant at Antwerp was gutted by fires set by the Germans before they pulled out. Chrysler now carries the plant at $1 value...
...gasoline and supply dumps just beyond Stavelot, to cut in behind the communications and supply lines of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies. At little Stavelot (pop. 5,000) the Germans would be only 22 miles from Liege, vital U.S. supply point at the end of the line from Antwerp. If Liege with its rich booty fell to the Germans, the U.S. First Army would have to retreat from the whole Aachen-Duren area...
...shorter-ranged, smaller version of V-2 as they would have used heavy artillery in advance of an assault. Their effectiveness was obvious: even haphazard strikes could do military damage aplenty in junction towns crowded with men and materials. The enemy claimed to have poured them on Antwerp, Brussels and Liège without mercy...