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...miles east of the field, a motorist saw the horrible finish. The big ship came out of the overcast in a long glide. It never leveled out. With a terrific roar it struck the ground in an open field, smashed into a deep ditch, lumbered out of it, burst into bright fire...
After 59 days of continuous siege, Adolf Hitler's headquarters announced last week that Ion Antonescu's Army, with German and Rumanian planes inflicting heavy losses on evacuating vessels in the harbor, had crushed Odessa's last defenses, found last-ditch defenders behind street barricades made out of their own dead. Women and children fought side by side with...
During the year-long siege of La Rochelle, which broke the rebellious Huguenots, Father Joseph was offered quarters in Richelieu's house. Instead he chose "a deserted summerhouse standing beside a broad ditch at the end of the garden. . . . When the wind blew hard from offshore and the tides were high, the ditch overflowed, ankle deep, into the friar's bedroom...
...canal is nothing but a narrow ditch cut through high banks of sandy soil and rock. Its sides rise steeply to a height of over 200 feet, are nowhere faced with masonry to more than 50 feet. The British, knowing that peacetime rains used to cause rock slips which blocked the canal, figured that wartime raids could do the same...
...Tallinn in Estonia by the Germans, the Russians still held Leningrad and denied that the railroad to Moscow had been cut as Berlin claimed. In modern war the taking of a large city is a tough and costly job if its citizenry is as determined on a last-ditch defense as was, for instance, the citizenry of Madrid. It is more than likely that there is plenty of this spirit in Leningrad. Last week a bulletin from there declared...