Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Channel Islanders almost were too late. Though London announced that the isles were demilitarized, triads of German "flying pencils" (Dorniers) last week swooped low, unopposed, to bomb and machine-gun what the German High Command called "troop concentrations." Eyewitnesses reported the blasting of lines of trucks carrying tomatoes and potatoes, the slaughter of a score of civilians at one dock in Guernsey. Following the bombings, the Channel Islands were taken over by German troops from the mainland, who scoured the shores and interiors for hidden British observers left behind...
...seeking out German planes upon the ground-a technique at which the Germans excel and a cardinal practice of the U. S. Air Corps' doctrine: "Find 'em, fix 'em and fight 'em." At Rouen, Merville and Schiphol (Amsterdam), concentrations of German aircraft were destroyed, including troop-carrying groups. At Borkum, Brunsbiittel and Norderney, the Fleet Air Arm joined in trying to disperse the tornado that is coming Britain...
...while Germany licks Europe, and afterward easily and gently seize Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, other Imperial leftovers. With Teuton historicity, Das Schwarze Korps recalled such German friends of the U.S. as Baron Frederick William Augustus Henry Ferdinand yon Steuben, who assisted in the Revolution as a topnotch troop-trainer (but who, the paper neglected to mention, had been persuaded to help the U. S. by a Frenchman); and General Carl Schurz, a pillar of the Republican Party in Lincoln's years (who incidentally had been exiled from Germany...
...spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop lorries following the heavy equipment...
...soon realized that he was a fifth-column agent . . . . We have observed that the Nazi fifth column is efficiently organized to an unbelievable extent, with the idea of creating panic among civilians, rousing them to evacuate towns in the area where the Nazis want to block the Allied troop movements and the movements of supplies, then strafing the whole lot along the blocked road from their planes, and producing further and more complete blockage of the road by the mass of wreckage and bodies...