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...concrete, 1,153 yards long and 20 yards wide, was the safety valve of the British Empire. The Battle of Malaya was lost; the Battle of Singapore was about to begin. Between the two battles there lay only the narrow strip connecting Johore and Singapore Island, known as the Causeway...
Britain's spindling Army commander, Lieut. General Arthur Ernest Percival, mindful of the hazard of trying to defend southern Johore with no avenue of escape but the Causeway, had decided to run for it, to get across the Causeway before Japanese bombers blew...
...they crossed the Causeway that night they did not know that help had already reached them, that a convoy of troops and planes and guns, miraculously shielded by a sudden storm from 60 attacking Japanese planes, had safely made port at Singapore...
...They still had The Hague, Leiden, Utrecht, Den Helder. They still held, with British and French, the island province of Zeeland in the rivers' mouths. But further resistance did indeed seem hopeless. Whole towns were bombed off the map. The flood water had not risen above the main causeway roads. Dutch glumness and anger at the surrender was directed chiefly at the Allies for not coming more strongly, Queen Wilhelmina for not staying...
...over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched the show-biggest British air raid of the war-until...