Word: hornbach
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this war, marched down again. The Germans did some fairly heavy shelling farther east in the Wissembourg sector, to which the French replied in kind. On the Rhine frontier...
...push came, each of these positions received special treatment; Gough a tremendous bombardment just behind his battle line, cutting off his rear completely; Butler, an enveloping attack; the Buffs' quarry, a blasting from field guns brought right into the German front line. So may it go at Forbach, Hornbach, Wissembourg, et al., if & when Adolf Hitler decides to push-or his generals...
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