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Word: trawlermen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...rustled more and more ominously. Scouting planes from both sides of the Maginot-Siegfried stalemate soared over the enemy's interior now in massed squadrons instead of singly. Over the North Sea, Nazi bombers dived with increasing fury and frequency on Allied merchant convoys and British trawlermen. The crew of a Dornier bomber flying inside the Belgian line on the Luxembourg border felt so springlike when three Belgian patrol planes came up to chase them away that they opened fire, sent the Belgian squadron leader crashing to death, forced another down with holes in his gas tank, wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRAND STRATEGY: Half-Year Mark | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

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