Word: radomes
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Dates: during 1939-1939
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...narrow pocket to the west of the capital, between the German pincers, fell back into the city, joining the defenders. To the north, Modlin fortress fell and a German force crossed the Bug River east of Warsaw, cutting off retreat. From the southwest, the German drive swung eastward past Radom, crossed the Vistula. Warsaw was surrounded. Once again it faced its historic fate. For ten times Warsaw had been taken by an invader-the last time on August 5, 1915, when Mackensen's army stormed its fortifications and Prince Leopold of Bavaria rode into the city in triumph...
...then in another. He had supervised the advance of the East Prussian divisions which, in the first days of the war, drove straight for Warsaw, only to be held up momentarily at Pultusk and Plonsk. These obstacles overcome, he shifted to the scene of the next most stubborn resistance, Radom-and Radom fell. Three days later he was directing operations against Kutno, the only place west of Warsaw where the Poles were still holding out-and Kutno also fell. This week he was reported in the South, directing the swift drive through the Ukraine to Rumania that would tighten Poland...
...artillery diverted for this defense weakened the Poles on the southwest. Smashing into Cracow, Germany's armies of the south swept on into the Industrial Triangle to take Sandomierz, Poland's munitions centre. Mechanized columns, whirling far ahead of infantry following in trucks, seized Kielce, Radom, Lódź (the textile centre). The entry of one motorized unit, traveling far ahead of its support, into the heart of Warsaw, led to premature announcement of the capital's invasion on Friday. Snipers at windows, machine gunners on roofs, drove the invaders back to Warsaw's southwestern...