Word: scheldt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the Meuse, over the Scheldt and Rhine...
...altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an instrument of such uncanny accuracy, is a more primitive but certainly effective means of putting air projectiles down on the bull's-eye: dive bombing. Last week, from the Marne to the Scheldt, Nazi airmen in ungainly, single-motored Junkers Ju.87s were on the go from dawn to dusk, dropping out of the dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps, railroad bridges-any target that could be knocked out with a hit from a heavy bomb. In news dispatches...
...King Leopold retained Lieut. General Henri Jean Charles Eugene Denis as Defense Minister when, last year, he reached retirement age. General Denis, from an old military family, was a champion of Belgium's eastern defense line, as against the "fighting retreat" policy and a limited defense of the Scheldt basin; a student of army motorization, a specialist in communications, a believer in preventive mobilization. Last February, Defense Minister Denis substituted energetic Major General F. F. 0. Michiels as Chief of Staff in place of less pro-Ally Lieut. General Emile Van den Bergen, whose kidney...