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...newspaper maps, day by day, the grey shadow bulged down swiftly, erupted in a black spearhead that raced past the ancient, memorable place names -Amiens, Arras, Abbeville-turned and hooked northward up the coast. Claws thrust out, curving, into the pocketed white space. On these daily map-pictures the U. S. watched the Allies thrashing as desperately as a fat bird in a falcon's talons...
...last week progressed, the German thrust which had reached the sea near Abbeville curled northward. The Channel ports began to fall and with them the bases of the isolated Allied Armies. Only Dunkirk, Ostend, Zeebrugge-all shatteringly air-bombed-were left when, after gripping Boulogne and Calais, the Germans on Saturday, May 25, struck down Vimy Ridge to the coast at Gravelines...
...Milch, Guderian-contemplated their operations map of Western Europe with profound satisfaction. Everything was working according to plan. Attack has always appealed to the German mind. And now they had such an attack! Their first push had already driven straight across Holland to Rotterdam. Before the Allied Armies rushing northward from the French border had time to reach prepared Belgian positions along the Albert Canal from Antwerp to Liége, a swift and fierce German drive cracked the Liége defenses the second day. *Headquarters watched the progress of German columns up the Meuse Valley towards Namur...
Adolf Hitler deemed Narvik important enough, as the main outlet for Swedish iron ore, to spend one-third of his destroyers trying to secure it. From conquered southern Norway his ground troops now pushed northward towards the battered iron port. Nazi parachute troops appeared at Mo, more than halfway up the coast highway from Namsos to Bodo, beyond which 47 miles of road end in trackless mountains stretching another 87 crow-line miles to Narvik. They were hurried ahead to cut off a Norse contingent and some 300 remnant British who, retreating north from Namsos, delayed the Nazi column...
Skagerrak and Kattegat, when Norse resistance stiffened and the "Minute Men of Elverum" covered their Government's flight, more & more German men and arms were already pouring northward by sea as well as by air from Germany and from new Nazi bases in Denmark, grimly taking losses as they had to, but still coming on. Unlike the Allies' relief expedition, Falkenhorst's invasion was geared to smite and smite again...