Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Germans discovered that only sacrifice squads were left in the $500,000,000 Maginot fastnesses, in they poured through a gap gouged out at the Saar. They also crossed the Rhine at Neuf-Brisach, where floods from a dynamited French canal dam failed to deter them. Their bombers concentrated on rail traffic behind the fortresses and reported destroying 30 French railway cars, sending several loaded with munitions high in the air. Southward German motorized and nonmotorized columns "competed with each other in tremendous marches," said the exultant German communique...
While the gallery was still marveling over these scores the second group of oldtimers teed up. In this group was 62-year-old Charles H. Jennings of Garden City, L. I. and Roaring Gap, N. C., most dangerous man in the field. Unlike low-scorers Douglas and Brown, who were playing golf in the 1890s (Brown's mother was the first U. S. women's golf champion), Bugaboo Jennings learned golf late in life. But he had already won the Senior title twice-in 1934 and again last year...
This strategic fact was not immediately realized. The French High Command hoped it would be able to close the gap. The Armies of the north were under their orders. Moreover, a retirement of that kind would have involved almost certainly the destruction of a fine Belgian Army of 20 divisions and abandonment of the whole of Belgium...
...thought, and there were good judges who agreed with me, that perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 men might be re-embarked, but it certainly seemed that the whole French First Army and the whole B. E. F., north of the Amiens-Abbeville gap would be broken up in open field or else have to capitulate for lack of food and ammunition...
...Germany's "land Gibraltar" at Istein, south anchor of the Westwall, and French flooding of the river valley south from Strasbourg with water from the Rhine-Rhône Canal last week, suggested one place whence Weygand was drawing man power for his effort-from the Burgundy Gap at the corner of Switzerland. Meantime, only some 85 of perhaps 250 German divisions were so engaged in Belgium. At any hour Mussolini might march. Regardless of dangers on other fronts, Weygand had to strip them of troops for the desperate battle in the north...