Word: canalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than a hundred yards to go when the Crocks started shooting their flame across the canal. It seared the gloom with a great orange-red gash. We broke into a trot...
...water-laced flats of eastern Holland, Montgomery's British and Canadians moved ahead, canal by canal, while the Germans warily eyed' their reserves and wondered when the big blow would jail: For one of the operations that communiqués call "local actions," LIFE Photographer George Silk went forward with an assault battalion, cabled this report...
This evening we crossed another canal-the Wessem in the Roermond area. A Scottish regiment made the crossing, and they made it "without fuss or bother, with a calmness that comes from lots of experience. The show started at 4 p.m.-dusk here - with a 400-gun barrage which lasted 15 minutes. They fired high-explosive shells for the first twelve minutes, and then finished off with smoke, to blind the enemy. Under cover of the smoke, the troops made their assault...
...barrage lifted, a battalion of infantry appeared as if by magic, and started their advance to the canal. They had been sheltering in houses, in caves, hedges and foxholes, and had been completely invisible. Now, 30 seconds after zero hour, they were spread out in Indian file, heading for the canal. I joined an assault platoon...
Britain's war was not even one day old (on Sept. 3, 1939) when dark, easy-smiling Guy Gibson flew his first bombing mission-to Kiel's ship canal. By late 1943, Wing Commander Gibson was the only one left of his 1939 squadron's 26 men. "Great Guy" Gibson had become a legend in the R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service...