Word: scheldt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Antwerp, the greatest freight port on the continent of Europe (annual peacetime capacity: 23,500,000 tons), was capable of supplying all the Allied armies in the Low Countries, and it had been captured intact, six weeks ago. But it was useless so long as the Scheldt estuary, its outlet to the sea, was flanked by pockets of stubborn, German holdout troops. So the operation to clear the banks of the Scheldt had a triple-A priority...
...estimated numbers (some now prisoners) whom the Nazis left behind: Cherbourg 35,000; Saint-Malu 4,000; Brest 35,000; Lorient 10,000; Saint-Nazaire 10,000; Le Havre 9,000; Boulogne 7,000; Calais 10,000; Dunkirk 10,000; Mouth of the Scheldt...
...Santos. Into the teeth of fire from an escorting German warship the "suicide" launches darted to make their kill. One of them was hit, but all got home, the British said. The Germans said three were hit and that the damaged Santos made shore at the mouth of the Scheldt...
Sergeant Major George Gristock's company was caught by the fire of a machine-gun nest pushed forward against its position on the Scheldt River (Belgium). Gristock went up alone under heavy fire and, though shot in both legs, wiped out the machine-gun crew at 20 yards with his automatic rifle. He did not return...
...Said the Manchester Guardian complacently: "It is almost certain that there are not 50 large transports in the Scheldt at present. . . . The slow-moving barges [from the Rhine] would take from 24 to 46 hours to make the crossing from Antwerp to Dover or to Hull, and as there would be hundreds of them they could hardly hope to escape detection. . . . They would cover so much sea area that our outpost vessels must run into them." The Guardian took comfort in the belief that the harbors at Boulogne, Calais, Zeebrugge and the Hook of Holland are so clogged with...