Word: blitzkriegers
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...Morgenthau with guerrilla tactics, to snipe at his rear with embarrassing questions, cut off his flanks with counterproposals. But this time General Morgenthau had not given Congress time to mobilize. Treasury and Congressional experts had worked out the campaign together. Mr. Morgenthau had smoothed the way for his Blitzkrieg by luncheons with big, ham-handed Chairman Robert L. ("Muley") Doughton of the House Ways & Means committee (which starts the tax bill rolling) and urbane Chairman Walter F. George of the Senate Finance Committee. With their help, Strategist Morgenthau thought that he could make...
...felt nor imagined the full and awful might of air power. When the Nazi flattened Warsaw with his bombers while his Stukas were ripping the bewildered 1918-model Polish Army to bloody shreds, the world thought it was hearing air power's last word. When the air-powered Blitzkrieg snatched Norway and plowed through the Low Countries and France, laymen and many ground soldiers thought they had seen the military Apocalypse...
...International Squadron," the second feature on the bill, has some scenes from "Blitzkrieg im Westen," a few airplane action shots of its own, and a pointless love story. The result is a spotty rehash of "A Yank in the R.A.F.," better in some of its air-raid sequences but an inferior job in general. Right now, those bombs don't look fictitious enough...
...Davy Jones private pool. But if the Germans refuse to admit the seriousness of the stakes in Africa their recent actions of forcing Petain to dismiss Weygand and their efforts to obtain control of the French fleet prove that they are quite aware of the importance of this blitzkrieg in the Battle of the Mediterranean. Yet, while it is possible for them to fly men and light supplies into Africa, it is impossible for them to increase their supply of heavy tanks there because the British control the sea lanes. The battle will be decided by the existing supplies...
...whole force over. By World War II's outbreak, with the assistance of four English officers, he had formed the most potent Arab fighting force of the 20th Century. With some armored cars and Chevrolets carrying machine guns, Major Glubb organized his 5,000 Arabs into a desert blitzkrieg unit...