Word: fortressed
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General Henri Giraud, addressing French civilians in France, said: "Tomorrow the European fortress will be attacked." General Dwight D. Eisenhower, addressing French soldiers in Africa, promised that they would "march down...
There was a new unity, both of hope and of action, among the Allies. There was certainty now that the Fortress Europe would be assaulted at many points-as OWI's Elmer Davis said, "this summer"; as General Giraud said, "from the north as well as from the south, from the east as well as from the west...
...thought the job would be easy. The Fortress was, as the Russians could see in the stubborn Kuban, as the Allies had found in slow Tunisia, a tricky thing...
...This fortress was more than a series of coastal guns. It was not just a wall, a thing to be pierced. It was a mobile fortress. Its walls could move from hill to hill. It consisted of great pools of armor and flesh, standing well inland from the coasts, ready to fling themselves at enemy beachheads, and of planes and submarines, striking on the approaches to the coasts...
...promised that any Allied invasion of the Continent this year would be confined to the outer circle of the European fortress. With either victory or peace with Russia before Christmas, he argued that the German forces would be sufficient to keep the Continent inviolable indefinitely. Britain and America would, therefore, be forced to compromise...