Word: robombs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, for almost four months, Bob Davidson fought his own war against the Germans. From eyewitnesses, he collected detailed robomb data and even drawings. Working with the F.F.I, he cut telephone wires, stretched ropes across highways to trap German dispatch riders. He raided German guard posts to steal guns and documents. "We'd steal explosives and carry them away in sacks. Two or three days later a bridge would blow...
Eisenhower also began to collect royalties in the air. His ground victories, long aided by air supremacy, now freed the airforce from its long task of dumping heavy loads on occupied territory, including the robomb coast. Bombers and fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle...
...everything, including the German strategy. The crack troops upon which the Germans had relied for orderly withdrawal to a hard line lay buried in the wreckage of the Normandy and Seine traps where the Battle of France had been won. What was left of the armored army guarding the robomb coast...
...robomb-launching coast lay ahead. As the British swung north from the Seine to the Somme, a general said...
...main U.S. forces, which the Germans had expected in a second invasion on the Calais coast, were deep into Belgium, were knocking at the gates to the Rhineland. Monty's main force, against which the Germans had guarded the most direct route to Paris, was invading the robomb coast-by land...