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Mostly the natives liked what they saw of the Army in Alexandria, Dry Prong Natchitoches, along the dusty roads and at Camp Beauregard (where at night the clustered, lighted tents were like an incandescent half-orange). Military police had little to do. As many soldiers went to drugstores for malted milks as to honky-tonks for beer...
...save. What Mr. Chamberlain did not say was that from the Allies' other main beachhead, Namsos, north of Trondheim, the balance of the Northwestern Expeditionary Force fled Norway that same day and night. The Allies had intended to pinch Trondheim from north and south. With the south prong of the pincers demolished, to press with the north prong would have been only a waste of men and munitions...
...Germany's fighting ships the Allied fleet settled down to the lengthy task of trying to isolate and destroy the rest. First step was the swift and probably very sketchy laying of vast Allied minefields extending from Dutch waters in the North Sea, around the flat, sandy, northern prong of what in less than 24 hours ceased to be Denmark, in the Kattegat right down through the Danish Belts (straits) and then, amazingly, clear across the Baltic to Memel and Lithuania...
...comb with a prong on the back for parting the hair...
Landing effected on the bank of the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai, the Japanese pushed southward on a broad front trying to catch the Chinese army in a pincers, of which their own forces in Shanghai were the other prong. General Pai Tsung-hsi promptly began to retire to the west, covering the railroad to Nanking...