Word: pontooned
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...enough damage to force the German bombers to fly in smaller formations, German fighters to patrol in large units to protect them. One notable achievement of the Allied air arm was a violent air attack on the German columns advancing on Sedan. Though outnumbered, they succeeded in destroying pontoon bridges, breaking up tank concentrations. That day the Germans claimed to have downed 200 Allied planes, but the French estimated that at least five German mechanized divisions were temporarily prevented from pouring into the Sedan salient...
...rolled into position on the Rhine facing Switzerland, but big guns of the French Maginot Line opened up with a terrific shelling of communication lines which Nazis would use to attack the Swiss. On Lake Constance, in full view of Swiss watchers on the farther shore, German troops practiced pontoon and rubber-boat warfare daily...
...massed columns. . . . There are cavalry maneuvers in the grassy meadow downriver a few miles from Remich. . . . The roads are jammed with Army trucks. . . . Every path that comes down from the main road into the meadow has a terminus in a wooden jetty. . . . No attempts are made to conceal the pontoon sections lying alongside...
...first time in six months Allied anti-aircraft fire began to work effectively in this sector. . . . The long arm of the French heavy artillery . . . became a serious threat to the German pontoon-building operations...
Somewhere on the Rhine, the Germans were reported massing pontoon bridges. The German people, remembering Hitler's mystical faith in March,* stirred excitedly, confidently expecting a vast Nazi offensive to begin soon. Some even named the day: March...