Word: borkum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...
...upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...