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...ground troops crossed the Belgian border at 5:30 a.m. at Gem-menich, only 15 miles from Vise, where they first entered in 1914. Furious air-bombing ahead of their mechanized advance made up for any lack of surprise. They overwhelmed the key fortress of Eben Emael, commanding the junction of the Albert Canal and the Meuse River. Its commandant and 1,000 men surrendered within a few hours, paralyzed by "nerve gas" or some other secret German weapon. But unlike 1914, Belgium was not wholly unprepared this time. And even more than then, she was heartened to resist...
...lunched with Fellow Veteran Raymond Daniell of the New York Times, covered Parliament's acrid session on Chamberlain's failure in Norway, told his office he was leaving for his country home at Cobham. In an inky blackout, Miller's train gathered speed out of Clapham Junction station. He opened the door of his railway compartment-or somehow it came open-and Webb Miller pitched out to his death on the railway tracks...
...less conventional wire came to "Father Knickerbocker, care Ralph S. Foss or Howard Reid, Harvard Club," from Charles H. Watkins '09, chairman of the entertainment committee of Boston's Harvard Club. It read: "2 Aprosoxuals, 5 auhedonists, 4 serendiptists, total 11, arrive at Pennsylvania Junction nine five. Have Herediah harness roans to four-seated surrey to meet us . . . your local constable might be helpful because several flips already consumed at this early hour. Prepare warming pans to get dampness out of beds. We bring our own night pails." A welcoming committee 100 strong went to the station to meet...
Push from Andalsnes. More important in the Allies' plan was the drive farther south. Troops landed on the quays of Molde and Andalsnes reached Dombås by train from the Andalsnes railhead. From Dåmbas junction they advanced in two directions. One force pressed north toward Storen to aid in besieging Trondheim from the south. Another contingent hurried southeast to brace the retreating Norse at Lillehammer (famed resort, home of Novelist Sigrid Undset) who faced the main German Army. In the Dovre Mountains around Dombås. German bombing planes, unopposed by Allied fighters or antiaircraft, again...
Editor Freeman made the Civil War in Spain clear to Richmond readers by comparing Talavera de la Reina to Burkeville Junction, Va. When German troops concentrated at Aachen, soon after World War II began, Dr. Freeman wrote in the News Leader...