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...situation was fraught with distractions to worry a commander on an unparalleled scale. In the beginning German parachute troops poured down, sometimes disguised as French peasants, even as women, to put the torch to villages in the Allies' rear areas. German motorcycle troops with armored breastplates and flame-throwing tanks with crews in suits of asbestos made incursions behind the French lines. The Germans used cardboard shapes to decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact bombs, so that even...
...British battleship . . . was ... hit between two forward turrets by a heavy caliber bomb. A half minute later a flame 500 meters [1,654 ft.] long appeared from the vessel, followed by thick smoke. When the smoke disappeared, nothing further of the vessel was seen except some floating debris...
...veterans-volunteer Swedes and Finns as well as Norwegians-stood a desperate six-hour siege. They manned even an old muzzle-loading cannon, which recoiled 18 feet and had to be hauled back into place after every shot. Nazi shock troopers finally blasted them out with mortars and flame...
...Single aim: to conquer." The Chamber was restive as the new Premier entered to present the aims on which his Premiership would stand or fall. Seeking to warm up the Deputies, he hailed "the flame of Jacobin patriotism which animates Daladier and which is the soul of the country." Daladier meanwhile was being cheered in the Senate, but neither house showed enthusiasm for the short, characteristic Cabinet declaration of Paul Reynaud which he read in four minutes flat. Keynote: "My government has but a single aim-to conquer...
...burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety nothing. Said one marveling first listener: "Why, this thing can broadcast silence...