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Word: sandomierz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1939-1939
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...Narew and the Vistula, the fort city of Modlin had yet to fall at week's end. But 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Such Is War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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