Word: regensburger
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...dozen pages which describe the climactic mission into Germany (based largely on an account of the Regensburg raid which Lay wrote for the Satevepost) must be close to the best writing about air combat to come out of World...
...London, it tried, although it failed, to reach its absolute climax. In the cities of the world, people raised their awed faces to the skies while air power thundered over Manila, Singapore, Sevastopol, Cologne, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Hamburg and Berlin. Over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, air power very nearly did reach its final aim of total annihilation; in those two cities, 125,000 Japanese perished in two clock ticks...
Died. Franz Xavier Schwarz, 72, pudgy bald treasurer of the Nazi Party from its 1925 beer-hall days to the finish; in a Regensburg, Germany, internment camp. Never famous himself, faithful Partyman Schwarz had one of the best-known mailboxes in Europe: Munich #33-where Nazis sent their party dues and contributions...
Patton's awareness of military history crops up constantly. Before the Normandy invasion he read Freeman's Norman Conquest to check on the roads used by William the Conqueror in Normandy and Brittany. He was the only one of his staff who knew that captured Regensburg was the Ratisbon of Napoleonic fame. The Melun crossing of the Seine, he noted, was the same used by Labienus with his Tenth Legion about...
...Regensburg prison, a violent inmate attacked Fellow Prisoner Franz von Papen, gave him a beating, reportedly busted his nose and a cheekbone...