Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...east, from the Vosges to the Rhone Valley, fresher French divisions yielded ground dearly. Surrounded by the German horde that swept through Verdun from the west and the Maginot Line from the east, 500,000 fortress troops stood in isolated squares and fought until the signing at Compiegne was announced to them...
...Paris fell, so did Le Havre. So did Montmedy, northern anchor of the fabulous Maginot Line, and Verdun, long thought impregnable, was encircled from the west, cracked. Meanwhile additional German forces thrust past Reims to Chalons, headed for Dijon, Chaumont, Belfort, Mulhouse, to take the whole Maginot Line from the rear...
...Final disaster seemed near when the Nazis took Verdun, drove on through Champagne?and France...
...Sedan and Verdun...
...France, the first known casualties of the war among newsmen occurred on a road between Verdun and Paris. An Army truck ran broadside into a press car carrying John Elliott of the New York Herald Tribune, William Henry Chamberlin of the Christian Science Monitor. Elliott was hospitalized with cuts from flying glass, a broken bone in his foot. Chamberlin escaped with a few small cuts...