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...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...
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...