Word: eder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...known group includes Paul Perkins, Swede Anderson, George Hibbard, Steve Mallett, and Bobby Byrnes from the Varsity squad; Paul Garrity, Rick Woodruff, and Don Blake from the Junior Varsity; and Herman Stromberg, Ray, Eder, Townsend Ellis, and Howie Gleason from the spring practice squad...
...police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told this story to Correspondent Sten Hedman of the Toronto Star...
...Floods. "On the morning of May 17 I was awakened by my hostess. She was very agitated. 'What a horrible catastrophe!' she exclaimed. She said there was no water in the house, and that many people had been killed in districts near the Mohne and Eder dams...
...British learned the same lesson in a heavy night raid on Bochum. which followed close on the heels of the American attacks. In the Ruhr Valley they found German anti-aircraft defenses greatly strengthened since the bombing of the Mohne and Eder dams (TIME, May 31). They brought back reports of ack-ack guns apparently massed miles deep along the industrial center...
...Waters' Destruction. British reconnaissance the same day brought photographs which told some of the story. In the valleys of the Eder and Ruhr, where the dams were blasted by the mines, there was terrible destruction. The waters of the Eder, released by the breaching of the Eder Dam, had swept the valley bare, flooding the airfield at Fritzlar, sweeping through farms and villages beyond the industrial town of Kassel, which was partly inundated (see map). The Ruhr, swollen as if by a tidal wave from the blasting of the Möhne and the Sorpe dams, had flooded town...