Word: jutlanders
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...pour its fire onto the French coast, where brightly colored German ack-ack was streaking the morning sky. In the fleet were old ladies like the Arkansas, belching with twelve 12-in. guns, the Texas and the Nevada, each with ten 14-inchers; the British Warspite, veteran of Jutland, the new British Black Prince, the British monitor Erebus. Closer in shore stood the cruisers and, even closer, the destroyers - the whole great armada, spread out from horizon to horizon, try ing to batter down the Atlantic Wall. Overhead were 8,000 planes of the R.A.F. and the U.S. Eighth...
...Germans suddenly showed panicky signs of uncertainty over Denmark, where a wave of sabotage had broken out. From Sweden came reports (possibly Nazi-inspired) that the Wehrmacht had rushed in heavy reinforcements, seven infantry and two armored divisions, to bolster its position along the Danish Jutland peninsula...
...mostly landlocked. Peace-minded Congresses (and most U.S. citizens) thought wishfully that the Navy could insure the U.S. against war. The "bluewater" U.S. Navy hoarded its thin appropriations for its armored warships, which it planned would bombard not enemy beaches but enemy warships, as in the Battle of Jutland. The Marines, always conscious of their traditional role, got nothing when they tried to get funds for the small landing boats which are the key to beachhead operations...
Four men knocked on the door of the parsonage at Vedersoe, in Denmark's western Jutland. Pastor Kaj Munk was telephoning a friend. He said: "The Germans have come for me." Then he hung up. It was the second time in five months that the invader had laid hands on Denmark's most outspoken anti-Nazi pamphleteer and preacher, who is also the country's foremost poet and playwright (TIME, Sept. 27). The first time the Germans held him two months, sent him home with instructions to confine his preaching to tiny Vedersoe, keep his political views...
...Silkeborg, Nazi military and civil headquarters for Jutland, work stopped and schools closed while 4,000 Danes shuffled silently through the hospital chapel where Martyr Munk's body had been placed. Flags were at half-mast until the Germans ordered them raised to the top again...