Word: maginot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans had contemplated using at least the natural barriers of France's toothless, unreversed Maginot Line, that notion had been blown away by the advances of Lieut. General Omar Bradley's light-footed armies. Wherever the enemy might have planned to form at least a delaying line - the Meuse, the Somme, the Aisne, the Moselle-the barriers had been swept over before he could organize any defense in strength...
...Rhine. Field Marshal Günther von Kluge's Seventh Army had been liquidated. His Fifteenth, already bled by its attmep to rescue the Seventh, was outflanked in its positions on the rocket Coast. The first question was whether the Germans could make a stand short of the Maginot Line. It was doubtful...
Could they make a long stand at the Maginot, whose turrets (which had faced the wrong way) might have been reversed and rearmed, but whose terrain, which also faced the wrong way, was unchangeable? It was doubtful...
...German collapse were also beginning to believe that there was no hard German line of defense to guard the roads to Paris. The U.S. tank columns found the propagandized Rommel Line thin and brittle: there seemed to be no fixed line of solid defenses west of the Maginot and Siegfried forts...
...troops had been fighting inside Cherbourg for 26 hours. But on the city's perimeter were Maginot-type forts, begun by Vauban in the 17th Century, improved by Napoleon in 1808, perfected by Todt in the 1940s, which still blazed with bitter resistance. Spectacled Major General Manton S. Eddy, commander of the 9th Division, stood with one of his regimental commanders on a hillside near Octeville, on the southwest approaches to the port...