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...Front. A bag of rice-one of many -was loaded one night last week on a drab, shallow-draft river steamer on the Yangtze River at Chungking. The boat cast off its moorings and rushed downstream on the treacherous current. About 250 miles downstream the terrain suddenly seemed to explode: the river became a narrow torrent, the hills convulsed into forbidding mountains...
Conditions were dissimilar to conditions which would prevail for an invasion of Britain: the body of water to be crossed was three times as wide at Crete, the terrain was completely different, population at Crete was scattered and unorganized for defense, the military objectives were few and simple, and, most important of all, the R.A.F. had no secondary fields to fall back on. But conditions at Crete were extraordinarily like those which would prevail in an assault on Ireland...
Particularly from a military viewpoint is the program useful, since it contains the elements of terrain-mapping required for regular army and air corps work...
More than ever, Nazi speed was the shocking thing. This time it was more shocking than in previous campaigns be cause the terrain had been advertised as more or less Blitzproof. And despite this supposed handicap, the Nazis went breathtakingly fast...
...early successes had been undeniably brilliant. Before the Yugoslavs had even been able to take battle stations, the Nazis had virtually completed the first phase of Blitzkrieg-the wild, daring dash for centers of communication and command. And they had done this just as fast as if the terrain were flat as Denmark. But Dusan Simovitch had been in tight spots before...