Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi prospects in Yugoslavia are better, and they are improved the farther north the Germans look. To outflank Yugoslavia, as Greece and Crete are already outflanked, the Allies must take most of German-held Italy. Last week the Germans said that strong troop concentrations had moved on to the Yugoslav coast of the Adriatic. These reports had a ring of truth. On that coast, at its few practicable points of entry,, the Germans can hope to gain time and inflict heavy losses in a profitable rear-guard-stand. It is there, if anywhere, that they must hold a gate...
...chosen for a pre-invasion test last week, the Germans are only 200 mi. from the Reich. For all military purposes, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Channel coast of France are walls of the inner fortress. On that coast last week, not a Nazi gun spoke when a British troop convoy hove within sight and range. Airmen sweeping northwestern France got the impression that both ground and aerial defenses were astoundingly weak; London heard that the Germans had withdrawn 13 of their 34 divisions from western France and the Lowlands. Either the Nazis had laid a masterful trap...
...Worst train wreck in U.S. history: 115 killed near Nashville, Tenn. in 1918. Worst train wreck of all time: more than 500 French soldiers, going home for Christmas leave, killed when an overloaded troop train plunged into an Alpine pass at St. Michel...
...German officer was stamped to death by Danish boots in Oldense. A German troop train exploded on its way north to Aalborg. The powerhouse at Aarhus went out, forcing shutdowns through East Jutland. Night fires broke out in Copenhagen's port and three locomotives were wrecked at Varde...
Regular notes were kept of the movements of warships in Stettin harbor, the number of troop trains passing through Stettin to the Russian front. Desperate, grandiose plans were conceived for a mass jail break and the ruthless slaughter of German civilians...