Word: canal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slamming ahead on a 75-mile front from the southern corner of Luxembourg to the Rhine-Marne Canal north of the Vosges. He was encircling the ancient fortress of Metz, German kingbolt position on this sector and strongest shield in front of the coal, steel and pig iron of the Saar Basin...
...Infections. Local, treatment with penicillin solutions can cure abscesses in the ear's outer canal. Penicillin injections have even saved the necessity of mastoid operations...
Last week the Germans blew up bridges over the Zuid Willemsvaart Canal. The British put down a Bailey bridge, sent infantry, tanks, flamethrowers into the town...
...dreary, flat battleground, covered with scrub, relieved by occasional stands of trees around farm buildings, was raked by fire from end to end. Shattered trees, shattered buildings and the shattered corpses of Germans lay before the Canadians. At one time, part of the bridgehead across the 100-foot canal was only ten yards deep. Gradually, units from western Canada pushed forward, wet and bedraggled, until they had carved out an area more than five miles by three...
...Canadians landed near Hoofdplaat, east of Breskens, and started fighting their way south to link hands with their comrades edging up from the Leopold Canal. Even this was not enough. The Nazi defenders-20,000 desperate and skillful infantrymen, marines, naval artillerymen, SS antitank specialists and paratroops-stood their ground along the countless dikes...