Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense measure was practical: air bombing of roads, rails and bridges over which the Germans hauled their 45-foot long rockets on special trucks to launching sites in The Hague area of Holland. Last week the R.A.F. was systematically trying to isolate the area...
...water-laced flats of eastern Holland, Montgomery's British and Canadians moved ahead, canal by canal, while the Germans warily eyed' their reserves and wondered when the big blow would jail: For one of the operations that communiqués call "local actions," LIFE Photographer George Silk went forward with an assault battalion, cabled this report...
...front weapons; last week they were aimed in mounting numbers at Allied supply lines in Belgium and eastern Holland. But the enemy also persisted in his war of terror against civilians. Into Britain's book of reckoning went another V-bomb tragedy: many women & children killed in a large store, while its Christmas toyland was crowded...
...prelate. In London, speaking to a gathering of Canadian servicemen, he had said: "This war is a fight to the bitter end for the vindication of human rights and the preservation of Christian civilization. That conviction has increased by what I have seen in Italy, in Belgium and in Holland of Nazi barbarism, and by the tales I have heard from unimpeachable witnesses-tales that shock and anger. . . . We are deeply grateful to you for having joined with our other Allies in waging a war overseas...
Crisis in The Netherlands. In the narrow sectors of liberated Holland the crisis was less acute, but the Maastricht appendix was inflamed. And over all liberated Holland the fear of hunger washed like the sea through the Nazi-blasted dikes. For it was chiefly the most industrialized sections of Holland that had been liberated. There was no meat, scarcely any bread. It was believed that reserves of fuel (and hence electric power) could not last out the month. Hordes of refugees from the flooded regions had swarmed into the cities, further complicating the food crisis...