Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mechanized German units advanced, the Smigly (nimble) cavalry of Generalissimo Smigly-Rydz swept around them to get at the German infantry. Poles claimed that successful counterattacks of this nature had carried the fighting to German soil on the west, in the neighborhood of Breslau and, in the north, over the East Prussian border below Allenstein. For this week, a major battle loomed as the Poles fell back upon prepared positions along the Narew River...
Weather, next to stomachs, is war's most basic consideration.* Six predictably fair weeks of Polish autumn lay ahead for action on the fat Polish plains. Then will come rains which the Poles hope will bog down the German juggernaut on the purposely unpaved roads leading in from the borders. In the mountain passes on the South soon will come General Snow to aid the defenders...
...German planes dropped soldiers (with parachutes) behind Polish lines, where they reconnoitred, reported back to their army via small, portable radios. Poles captured them right & left, gave 'them short shrift. Over bombed Warsaw, the Poles erected a poor imitation of London's "balloon barrage," claimed that a German pilot got caught...
...first reported on the war's fourth day, dropped in bombs by German planes...
...German Navy claimed full control of the Baltic, said it had sunk a Polish destroyer and submarine off Gdynia...