Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Application of this lesson to the Western Front seemed to be more threatening to Germany than to the Allies. The Siegfried Position, hastily constructed, is composed of pillboxes and individual blockhouses, deeply buried but connected only by trenches, not by anchoring footings as is the Maginot Line.* On paper, the Allies sooner than the Germans could blast a way out of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate, though the cost in men would probably remain about where Generalissimo Gamelin...
...spring breathed sweetly on Europe, as the first crocuses peeped up in French mountain slopes, as the first storks returned to Belfort and other birds started taking mates, the wings of war rustled more and more ominously. Scouting planes from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate soared over the enemy's interior now in massed squadrons instead of singly. Over the North Sea, Nazi bombers dived with increasing fury and frequency on Allied merchant convoys and British trawlermen. The crew of a Dornier bomber flying inside the Belgian line on the Luxembourg border felt so springlike when three...
...Auteuil. British Tommies whipped the French Poilus 36-to-3 at rugby. At the stalemated fighting front, bright skies encouraged reconnaissance flights by both sides, to see what new dispositions the enemy had made during weeks of freeze and fog. For the troops in outpost zones ahead of the Maginot Line and Westwall, patrol duty became more frequent and arduous, first stations busier...
...shall maneuver France right out of her Maginot Line without losing a single soldier. How to do it is my secret...
...world. And if Paris is destroyed, what does it matter if I lose everything?" No bombs fell, and the play-love mixed with politics, a debonair French man and a Nazi-persecuted Austrian countess-was a hit. Proceeds of the first night went to soldiers in the Maginot Line, in the form of comfort kits...