Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hear that the Rhine had been crossed must have been a shattering blow to the remnants of German morale. The Rhine, the sacred river that winds through German song & story, had not been crossed by hostile armies since Napoleon passed over it at Strasbourg in 1805. * As a military factor, the Remagen bridgehead offered the chance of a drive to the northeast, outflanking the Ruhr; or a push to the southeast, forcing a German withdrawal from the Saar and the rest of the Rhineland south of the Moselle...
...come in from the back of a train, aiming at the third car from the engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...
...long-prepared demolition charges - huge quantities of dynamite -and blew them up. At Duisburg they blew up the three bridges still standing. Under cover of darkness at Ürdingen, 19 U.S. volunteers ventured out on the Adolf Hitler Autobahn bridge - fully aware that the Germans might blow it at any moment - to find and cut the demolition wires. They were silhouetted in the light of burning tar and chased back off the bridge by enemy gunfire; minutes later the bridge was blown...
After these demolitions, the Nazis had only two bridges at Wesel and one or two ferries or temporary bridges near by. The Germans still west of the river were getting across as fast as possible. The enemy was certain to blow any bridge the Allies threatened to cross. A possible Allied countermove was a series of air borne operations launched at the eastern bridgeheads - but it seemed unlikely "that Allied paratroopers, in that thickly set tled territory, could achieve sufficient sur prise to stay the Nazi hand...
...Then the blow-recognition from Washington-fell. The U.S. State Department not only recognized Osmin Aguirre but urged other nations to do likewise. It probably wanted to complete its united Hemisphere front against Argentina in time for the Mexico City Conference. But Salvadorans feared that the little Dictator, thus encouraged, might snatch the Government from the less dreaded Castaneda and resume his tyranny...