Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this success Allied Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin rushed reserves to Namur from Sedan and Montmédy they doubtless shook hands with one another in elation. Soon their map recorded another push. In the rough and wooded Ardennes, German spearheads crushed the Belgian Chasseurs and drove straight at the Maginot Extension below Sedan. They made a dent, the dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power to the full extent of their resources. Hitler...
Meanwhile immobilizing troops of the Maginot Line proper by holding attacks, the Germans kept some 30 divisions poised on the Swiss border ready to strike into France through the Burgundy Gap. South of Switzerland Benito Mussolini's Army was a final threat...
Germans penetrating ten miles into the Maginot Line...
Within its thick walls is a plaza some 600 yd. in diameter. Ceilings of its turrets are reinforced concrete ten feet thick, low to the ground like the Maginot Line. Speculation as to what manner of weapon could paralyze the defenders of such a place centred on two possibilities: 1) Bombs (perhaps liquid oxygen) of such strength that their concussion would knock unconscious if not kill any living thing within half a mile - a means that left some question of how Lieut. Witzig and his two assistants managed to survive...
...flying officers for their "incomparable daring" in taking Eben Emael and certain bridges over the Albert Canal. He promoted Lieut. Witzig to captain. To the inventors of the new Angriffsmittel went greater tribute: real alarm among the Allies lest this unknown new weapon prove a key to unlock the Maginot Line...