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...French, 200,000 British, 400,000 Belgians and a few thousand Dutch. The German Army of Küchler had driven them back from the Albert Canal. The German Army of Reichenau had pounded through the Ardennes Forest and across the Meuse (see map). At Neufchâteau and Sedan the French IX Army (under incapable General André Corap) had been cracked, crushed, scattered...
...Rotterdam's airport. Thereafter it helped reduce Eben Emael, some of the forts at Liege, flew interference for the German columns which rolled through, strafed the British and French columns advancing to meet them. Low-flying German attack bombers were largely responsible for the break-through at Sedan by strafing the defenders with machine guns and small bombs. Behind the Allied lines high-flying dive bombers hurtled down from the sky to blast away at air fields and communication lines...
...West, Allied pursuit planes did enough damage to force the German bombers to fly in smaller formations, German fighters to patrol in large units to protect them. One notable achievement of the Allied air arm was a violent air attack on the German columns advancing on Sedan. Though outnumbered, they succeeded in destroying pontoon bridges, breaking up tank concentrations. That day the Germans claimed to have downed 200 Allied planes, but the French estimated that at least five German mechanized divisions were temporarily prevented from pouring into the Sedan salient...
Wings Over England? As the German land drive turned westward from below Sedan and headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going...
...Thursday he flew to Paris and gave France's Premier Paul Reynaud a thoroughgoing fight talk. That was the day of the greatest break in the Allied lines south of Sedan. On that same day Premier Reynaud told his Chamber of Deputies that "men and methods" would be changed. Changed they were, with a new regime of strong men for France (see p. 34) and a new Allied generalissimo, Maxime Weygand (see p. 23). ∧ Back in London, Prime Minister Churchill lunched on Friday at the Japanese Embassy with Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu, Minister at Large Tatsuo Kawai, French Ambassador...