Word: ostend
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...Germans picked up Colonel Mary Booth near Ostend, in the first stage of their sweep through the Low Countries and France in May 1940. They thought the granddaughter of the Salvation Army's founder was a spy; the Qestapo grilled her for 24 hours. Then she was sent to Germany, to the Petershausen Camp for Civilian Internees in a large public school at Konstanz, the south German city on the shores of the Boden...
...raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines for submarines, planes, tanks) and the steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations in the Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying Fortresses made their seventh continental raid, proving the U.S. thesis that the high-speed, high-flying B-17s can be used in daylight raids where accuracy is greater than at night. Not a B-17 had been lost, with...
...roads to any threatened point in the Brest-St.-Malo-Cherbourg sector. Another is stationed near Amiens, has the Havre-Dieppe-Boulogne line to back up (last week it dashed to Dieppe to meet the Canadians). The third is reported to be quartered at Ghent, covers the Calais-Ostend-Flushing zone...
...Rome at the time and thrilled to the back teeth was an 18-year-old Belgian girl, Marie-Lelia Baels. She was a commoner, a descendant of Ostend fisherfolk; royal glamor boys were out of her class. But her eyes were fixed on the Pauline Chapel wedding and she was sorry when it was all over...
Marie-Lelia's father, Henri L. Baels, was an ambitious man. His father, though one of the fisherfolk, had managed to send Henri to a good school. Henri had become a lawyer and blossomed into better society. He joined the Flemish Catholic Party, was elected deputy of Ostend, later became Minister of Agriculture. In 1930, the year young Marie-Lelia was in Rome, he lost his ministerial job. He soon wangled an appointment as Governor of West Flanders Province and moved to Bruges, dreamy capital of West Flanders, Marie-Lelia then went home to enjoy a new life...