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Word: chaumont (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thriller-Diller E. Phillips Oppenheim got back safely to England from the Riviera, mum about how he did it. ∙∙U.S. Newspaper Correspondent Jay C. Allen, imprisoned at Chaumont by the Nazis for trying to slip into Unoccupied France, was given a mutton-sleeves nightshirt, a French copy of GWTW, hoped to get out this week when his go-day term expires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Prisoners & Fugitives | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Paris fell, so did Le Havre. So did Montmedy, northern anchor of the fabulous Maginot Line, and Verdun, long thought impregnable, was encircled from the west, cracked. Meanwhile additional German forces thrust past Reims to Chalons, headed for Dijon, Chaumont, Belfort, Mulhouse, to take the whole Maginot Line from the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN THEATRE: Exit France | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

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