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...then zooming up into high loops to dive again farther down the road (see p. 21). And the Sixth Column-the milling, hysterical hordes of refugees, 2,000,000 of them in the Belgian pocket alone-clogged roads and snarled up the already disorganized Allied supply lines. The disrupting Panzer column blows were swift and, when parried, they glanced around the target to strike farther on, even deeper in the Allied rear. Meanwhile, in Belgium the German infantry pressed forward relentlessly, night and day, in efficient "sacrificial cooperation" with the air and armored forces...
Contrary to civilian and journalistic impressions, the German technique of achieving a break-through such as that at Sedan fortnight ago is not by means of armored (Panzer) divisions, of which the Germans have about twelve (the French have three; the British two). Break-through is made by engineers and infantry, preceded by air-bombing and accompanied by heavy (over 20 tons) tanks detailed to the infantry...
Attack Army's task was to push on & on never to retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...
...Germans poured before the mass of the Allied force could reach the prepared outer defenses. Beginning Sunday night, things began to look bad for the Allies, not only in Holland but all down through the Ardennes Forest, where the Germans ripped open with terrific air attacks supporting their Panzer (armored columns...
Yesterday afternoon at a meeting in Kendall House, the Legal Aid Bureau, which is manned by Law School honor students, elected officers for 1939-40. The following were chosen; Edward Le C. Vogt. President; Hubert Nexon, Vice-President; William Hulburt, Treasurer; Edward Gignoux, Secretary; and Irving Panzer, Senior director on the Board...