Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cabin boy who entered the Navy in 1933, saw service in Spain. On the third, fourth and seventh days of World War II he sank the British merchantmen Bosnia, Rio Claro and Gartavon respectively. Adolf Hitler received him and his men at the Chancellery, hung on Prien the Ritter Cross (oversized Iron Cross), the highest German military decoration today. Crowds outside yelled: "Prien, the deed was wonderful!" That night the heroes were regaled at the Wintergarten (vaudeville) where Goebbels presented them each with a book of news clippings and the audience sang: "We are off to England...
...mechanical steed experiences during a charge, Correspondents Webb Miller (U. P.) and Harold Denny (New York Times) rode together in one of the B. E. F.'s fast, small tanks. Mr. Miller got a banged leg, Mr. Denny a sense of awe and seaksickness as they joggled cross-country on rubber-padded perches within their little juggernaut...
...their basic war plan from offensive to defensive. Unknown to the Germans they prepared a line of resistance behind a line of surveillance. When the German advance came last week, only French outposts remained. These withdrew slowly, leading the waves of German troops into a zone of red-hot cross-fire from machine guns and artillery. Of some 100,000 Germans involved, the French guessed they killed five to seven thousand...
...secondaries stood fast, and their retreating firsts laid "tank asparagus" (sharpened steel rails set at an angle in triangular base plates) which halted French juggernauts. Where the French retreat was continuous, the Germans actually lost contact with them since, so polite was this party, Nazi orders were not to cross the French border. By week's end the French had yielded, the Germans retaken virtually all German territory except a few ridges which the French retained as better strategic ground for defense than their own border hills. French heavy artillery busied itself dropping shells into a 20-square-mile...
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