Word: cross-channel
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With his wife and three children (including a second son born last July 4 and named after Franklin Roosevelt) tucked safely in the country, the Air Commodore could take his share of Britain's war perils. He had the usual near misses, from cross-channel shellings on the south coast, from bombs everywhere. After a four-hour sightseeing tour through London's streets during a heavy air raid, his companion said: "As the Duke appeared oblivious of it all, I did my best to look equally indifferent...
...least 80 Dutch patriots have had their heads chopped off during the past month for "communicating with the British" in a cross-Channel liaison that has increased, rather than diminished, in the two years The Netherlands have been under Nazi control...
...infantrymen from eight different units had been captured "at ports on the English southeast coast, and were in fact the first members of the great German invasion Army to reach England alive." What this amounted to was nothing more than proof of what military people would naturally expect, i.e., cross-channel raids by small parties of both sides to feel out enemy dispositions...
Their U-boats, one of which was sunk, and motor launches took their toll of the vast [cross-channel] traffic which now began. For four or five days the intense struggle raged. All armored divisions, or what was left of them, together with great masses of German infantry and artillery, hurled themselves on the ever narrowing and contracting appendix within which the British and French Armies fought...
Between the Nazi's mine warfare and Britain's reprisal blockade on German exports, effective this week, neutral shipping slowed to a standstill. Dutch ships stayed in port, Belgian too. Cross-Channel mail boats missed their runs or were rerouted below the British mine barrage at the Strait of Dover. True it was that this barrage, and a mine field guarding the Thames estuary, and the British blockade patrol, were what originally forced neutrals to enter British waters for guidance and inspection. But now neutrals had even smaller chance of getting through until British sweepers cleared the German...