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...fresh coat of paint, a few piles of aluminum sheeting and some planning boards, but here eventually the 11,500 parts that make up the nose and center fuselage sections of the Martin bomber will be assembled, production-line fashion (there are 2,500 parts in the Plymouth sedan body). Goodyear is making the wings of this ship, Hudson the tail section, all for assembly in Omaha...
...also studied PU-36. Reconnaissance had looked over the Smolensk area. In posthumous tribute to Marshal Tukhachevsky, the German commander in this area, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, decided to abandon the fundamental pattern of Blitzkrieg -cutting as if with a knife through one strategic spot (as at Sedan) and then encircling. Instead he dug in, as if with a gigantic fork, sending five parallel prongs into the defense area. Each pair of prongs had to reduce island after island between them...
...Rundstedt. Rundstedt is easily the most experienced German commander. He alone of the present crop of generals was an Army Corps Chief of Staff in World War I. He will go down in German history as a hero because it was he who devised the break-through at Sedan early last summer, and it was his tank generals, Guderian and Kleist, who executed...
...after the Germans broke through at Sedan De Gaulle was made a general in command of a hastily assembled armored division. He held up the Germans for four days at Laon, fought fiercely at Abbeville (and it was there that his men first called him Le Général). After that Premier Paul Reynaud made him Under Secretary of State for Defense. General de Gaulle helped to persuade Premier Reynaud to continue the war-against the arguments for armistice of Weygand, Pétain and others-and he flew to London to tell Winston Churchill that France would...
...worthy but little-known books, after months of thumbing along untrodden ways, were last fortnight picked up by a comfortable sedan-the Pulitzer award for biography and history-and given a lift toward public attention...