Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motorized scouting unit, of which he was second in command, was forced to retreat from Rouen when French engineers prematurely dynamited a bridge over which much of their equipment was coming...
...FiAT-Elliot Paul-Random House ($2). Moritz the miraculous Boxer (a dog) makes his debut with the familiar cast of Homer Evans, detective, dead-eye Miriam, Inspector Fremont and his dusky Hydrangea, Hjalmar Jansen the crockery smasher, the Singe, Godo the Whack, et al., roister-doistering from Paris to Rouen and back by water, land and haystack. Funniest murder story yet from veteran Mr. Paul, whose higher-browed books include The Life & Death of a Spanish Town...
...swoop of all. R. A. F. sought to hamper those preparations by seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...
...Château-Thierry and Rouen...
...steel prongs, composed of some 200 swift tanks each, followed by armored demolition units, pressed on to the outskirts of Rouen and to Gisors, only 35 miles from Paris. The evacuation of Paris began. The British announced they were rushing "important contingents" to France and sending more airplanes...