Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capitals-to London, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Prague and Vienna. She was in Germany during the frantic days just before Munich when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos...
...while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy . . . and will result in the shortening of the war." The Luftwaffe lost at least 102 fighters, used 300 fighter planes to try to defend "the most vital air target in all Germany...
...defend the western invasion coast, Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt has three divisions in Holland, four in Belgium, 33 in France (five guarding the south coast, the rest divided between central France and the Channel...
...with the Party label-like Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Göring, Ribbentrop, Rosenberg and thousands of Nazis who hold cardinal state positions-these Germans know that perpetuation of the Nazi regime is, above all, a personal matter of life or death. They hope to consolidate their forces and successfully defend the Third Reich. They also hope, and they probably believe, that the Allies may weary, divide and make peace with a Nazi Germany...
...principle of numbers also applies to bombers, especially in Europe, where their ability to defend themselves and knock down fighters increases out of all proportion as the numoers are increased. So it is that in the U.S.'s huge aircraft production (nearly 8,000 in September) airmen see something more than aircraft of superior quality. They also see numbers as decisive, an outlook that may bind the U.S. to more extensive postwar production of aircraft and a larger peacetime air force than most U.S. citizens now expect...