Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German tanks in the middle of truck and passenger-vehicle columns were shot and blasted, careening over cars, blocking the columns. I saw one double column over a mile long-and I did not discover the end of it-in which only a few vehicles had not been burned or smashed. Volkswagen, sedans, ack-ack trucks, ammunition carriers, 47-mm. guns and hundreds of bicycles were irretrievably snarled...
Free Parking. Throughout Sept. 3, 4 and 5, German columns following behind the original columns and unaware of the trap that had been sprung continued to bump into our lines around Mons. An American MP directing traffic during the night discovered that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...German women formed pick & shovel brigades to strengthen the West Wall. A Swiss traveler reported that the first German women troops were already manning parts of the West Wall. The German nightmare-Einkreisung, encirclement-was coming true at last. And behind the frightened Germans stood a vast potential fifth column. Scattered throughout the Reich were some eight million foreign workers. To them last week went two calls from General Eisenhower's headquarters: ''Begin now to leave the factories . . . [but] do not be provoked by the Gestapo into unorganized action." In Eisenach and Dessau, French, Belgian and Dutch...
...King motored from Bucharest to the meeting, with his mother. After two hours he turned his car off the road at a gasoline dump. A German motorized column came into sight. The royal party jumped into their car and hurried off just as the Germans opened fire. Bullets flew back & forth for a few minutes before the King raced out of the danger zone...
Another smart move of General Hodges -pushing two columns forward to threaten Liège and then cutting the city off from behind by a third column-cut up another German division, captured a thousand prisoners, killed one general and captured another without a real fight...