Word: dawns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...light of the waning moon Rommel made his last-minute preparations. As dawn cracked over the desert, he attacked. It looked at last like the offensive for which the British had waited...
...Berlin's huge Reich Chancellery stirred gently in the breeze. Inside, after seven nearly sleepless days of conferences and feverish meditation, the demoniac leader of Germany had reached his decision. A few minutes later, and hundreds of miles away, a German bomber snarled through the grey, drizzling Polish dawn and dropped a missile on the fishing village and air base of Puck. World War II had begun...
...Before dawn His Majesty's destroyers, transports and launches, chasseurs of the Fighting French Navy, a Polish destroyer and a mile-long string of invasion barges laden with troops and tanks were off Dieppe, hidden in the night's retreating skirts...
From all accounts Churchill and Stalin enjoyed the meeting. A state dinner of 26 courses in the Kremlin lasted until dawn. It was a gay affair, "full of fun and very jocular." Stalin "told several jokes." Twenty-five toasts were drunk, including one to President Roosevelt. It sounded suspiciously as if in spite of the marching Panzers those two old rascals had had themselves a time...
...look around. If it's clear I'll flash on one navigation light. . . ."I climb into the bomber with him. Above, we find a clearer spot in a squall and flash on one light. Up after us come the rest of the bombers and peashooters [fighters]. As dawn breaks we are off for Canton...