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Word: lokal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was bad news indeed for the Nazis. A war correspondent for the Berlin Lokal lanzeiger reported that on the Caen front the German soldier's happiest hours were when drenching rain falls, "the clay clings to our boots, greatcoats become soaked and heavy, and foxhole trenches fill with water. But when the storm passes and the sun emerges, the soldier's greeting to the sunlight, hissed through clenched teeth, is unprintable. For with the sun also return the swarms of enemy fighters and fighter-bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF FRANCE: War and Weather | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

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