Word: hollande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sergeant Dennis Smith, R.A.F., stood in the doorway of his burning bomber and looked down on northern Holland. Behind him in the plane lay his friend, Flight Sergeant Ernest Salway, badly wounded, his parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave...
LONDON -- Royal Air Force Whirl-winds attacked the German airfield at Maupertus, France, this afternoon, the Air Ministry announced, and Mosquito bombers raided factories at Hendelo, Holland, and near Liege, Belgium. Escorting Spitfires destroyed one enemy fighter. No British planes were missing...
...potential was huge, and the Germans eventually would have realized it to the full. To boost future output, Alfred Rosenberg, Nazi Administrator for the eastern territories, had organized The Netherlands East Company, and had begun moving the first of 3,000,000 Dutchmen (one-third of the nation) from Holland to the Ukraine. The plan has met with little success...
...British film to keep anyone's fists clenched and at the same time there's no Errol Flynn or take heroism. Add excellent, tight acting and real dialogue, and the result is a perfect war picture. It's the taut story of one English bomber crew, forced down over Holland, and its eventual escape with the aid of Dutch civilians. With little of the shooting and grunting of Errol's "Dangerous Journey", it is stronger on the human side, and that makes it a distinguished movie...
Long expected by the staff, the demise of the Ivy League daily was planned so that the students would still be able to get official news, Chairman Eugene Holland, Jr., and Managing Editors J. Van Ness Phillip, Jr. and Benjamin H. Walker said in a joint announcement in the paper's final issue...