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...they heard at German headquarters that to counter this success Allied Generalissimo Maurice Gustave Gamelin rushed reserves to Namur from Sedan and Montmédy they doubtless shook hands with one another in elation. Soon their map recorded another push. In the rough and wooded Ardennes, German spearheads crushed the Belgian Chasseurs and drove straight at the Maginot Extension below Sedan. They made a dent, the dent was widened to a pocket. The pocket became a bulge when other columns crushed through: below Namur near Dinant, Givet, Mèziéres; above Namur at Gembloux. Flinging power behind power...
...westward around Paris and, still sweeping around, finally pin the French Armies against the Rhine and the Alps. Last week, they watched the execution of another plan, another swing, but a swing in the opposite direction. Pivoting at Antwerp, the scythe swept westward. Its point at Sedan swept onward to Rethel, Laon, St. Quentin. For a time it threatened to swing far enough south to take in Paris, but its surest aim as it swept on day by day was to pin the Allied Armies in Belgium back against the Channel...
...Nazi scythe swept westward be tween Sedan and Namur it threatened to cut the supply and communication lines to Paris of the Belgians, British and French on the Plain of Flanders, threatened to cut them off from France. One day having fought and held Louvain against Nazi attacks, the British next day turned and retired with their Belgian allies. They also withdrew from Brussels, from Antwerp...
...planes with crosses under their wingtips and swastikas on their tails led and supported Germany's supreme effort (see p. 27). Left behind, beleaguered by the rising German tide, pounded by its heaviest artillery and air bombs were Allied garrisons in forts at Liége, Namur, Sedan, Montmédy, who pounded back desperately at the lava flow of German supply and reinforcement. After the break-through at Sedan, Generalissimo Gamelin issued his last-ditch order...
...stood the tank situation last fortnight when one spearhead of the German Army of Attack darted across The Netherlands to Rotterdam. Three more lanced through above and below Liege, two more above and below Sedan. When General Guderian unleashed his Army, all Allied preconceptions of these columns' speed and power went overboard. As did their machines of the air, the Germans' land machines so overwhelmed the Allies that only courage and discipline saved "strategic retreat" from immediately becoming "rout...