Word: antwerp
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...Germans had put on a brilliant performance in the battle of supply. They ceased to threaten the port of Antwerp last week (see below), but for two months they had stood off the British and Canadians on its approaches. They had ruined Le Havre, Marseille, Salonika. Hundreds of miles behind the main battle line, they still had no less than 100,000 troops in Dunkirk, Saint-Nazaire, La Rochelle, Lorient, the Channel Islands, and Royan (covering Bordeaux). Where German soil was threatened, they fought like wildcats...
...last pin was knocked from the gate to the great port of Antwerp last week. It took one of the crudest ship-to-shore battles of the war to finish...
Sudden Speed. Not even Rundstedt could do anything for the wretched remains of German garrisons in the Scheldt estuary. Their job was to hold out to the last, block the approaches to the vital port of Antwerp as long as they could...
...British fought mightily to shorten the time; until Antwerp was opened, there could probably be no major assault on the western front...
...this week the situation had undoubtedly been improved. A vast road-and-railroad communications system had been built up, and it would grow & grow. But until the Allies had Antwerp, where locomotives, railroad cars and other heavy freight could be poured ashore, troops on the line would have to get used to shortages...