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Fort Driant, south of Metz on the Moselle River, is three-quarters of a mile long by half a mile wide. Built as a defense against German invasion, it is shaped like a double-bit ax, with the cutting edges turned north & south. A barbed-wire-filled moat surrounds its dugouts, gun emplacements, pillboxes, underground tunnels, steel doors, sunken supply roads and guns that move up & down on elevators...
...separate cars, the Churchills and the Roosevelts motored up the steep hills to Quebec's Citadel, an ancient fortress, surrounded by a deep moat, its entrance barred with iron chains the width of a man's forearm...
From across the moat they heard by the wireless that the Allies had just carried out their biggest maneuvers yet with para chute and glider-borne soldiers, British and U.S. Soon the same men would drop down out of the night somewhere on the Continent...
...Channel was kinder now. The crosscurrents and races of this turbulent moat are never still, but the long winter storms were over. The fresh wind still snatched spindrift from the whitecaps in the narrows opposite Dover, as it did beyond in the North Sea, and around Cape Breton in the rough Bay of Biscay. But in the fjords, in the bays and river mouths, the way was smoother. Along the flat sand beaches and the rocky cliffs, around the peninsulas, along the marshes and the dikes the invasion season had begun...
...Moat Sacred Start...