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...Sept. 4, 1939, 29 British planes set out to bomb battleships in the German port of Wilhelmshaven. The weather wasn't very good. Some of them bombed Wilhelmshaven, but some of them got lost and unloaded on Esbjerg instead, where there weren't any battleships and which, more to the point, is in Denmark. A woman was killed while making dinner...
...Esbjerg on the Jutland coast, which is a forbidden zone and heavily mined against invasion, the Germans ordered curfew after 10. Organized workers struck, shopkeepers followed their lead, the banks closed and the baking ovens were allowed to cool. Allied flags appeared, waved, vanished and appeared again farther down the street. The Danes kept impassive faces, continued to stare through approaching Germans. After three days the baffled Kommandantur withdrew the curfew...
...Belgian ships went down in flames after its crew had bailed out. Britain made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits of the British Isles, had been adequate...
...frontier to catch would-be deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport of Esbjerg, 40 miles from the German border, injuring twelve and killing one (a woman). Danish fishing boats blundered into German mine fields and sank. Off the Swedish coast a Greek steamer struck a German mine, sank...
...excellent, and railroads (50% Government-owned, the rest with the State as majority stockholder) are efficient, traveling in Denmark means a lot of ferrying. The new bridge, on the direct line between Copenhagen and London, cuts down by nearly 50% the time of the journey from Copenhagen to Esbjerg, Denmark's only important port in the North Sea. home of a large fleet of fishing vessels and westbound steamship lines. Irrepressibly ambitious about bridges, Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrom bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Zealand to the east coast...