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...following pages TIME presents a map of Southeastern England. For centuries men have been accustomed to describe it as the political, financial and cultural centre of the British Empire. Its military geography was generally dismissed with one word, invulnerable. Across its wind-whipped moat-the English Channel-no invader passed to establish a position on British soil in nearly 900 years, except with the consent of feuding Britons. Yet in this area, at Pevensey in 1066, William and his mailed Norman horsemen beached the open boats in which they had crossed from the estuary of the Somme and marched inland...
...difference has been made by air power. Weeks ago Germany's air fleet closed the coast of Southeastern England to British shipping far more effectively than it was ever closed by submarines in 1914-18. Months ago German air power made the restricted waters of the Channel unsafe for the heavy units of the British Fleet and the fall of France underscored that fact. With the capture of the Channel coast near Calais it also became possible for Hitler to emplace heavy artillery units to command not only the Channel but the British shore opposite-guns which because they...
narrow, cliff-bound shore. Through the Alps to France was uphill dangerous work, for the passes spread wide into Southeastern France...
...Most ominous news came from southeastern Europe, long the source of Hollywood's false hair. Mobilization in the Balkans hampered progress on nine current wig pictures...
Blue & Yellow Danube. At Donaue-schingen in the Black Forest three small Alpine streams come together to form Europe's second longest river (the Volga is longer), which flows 1,750 miles across central and southeastern Europe to pour its waters into the Black Sea north of Constantsa. The Danube drains 320,200 square miles, has 300 tributaries; with the Rhine and the canal joining the two (now being improved at a cost of $300,000,000) it forms a waterway across Europe...