Word: walcheren
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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...Rocket Coast. Hollanders on liberated Walcheren island told of the German's careful guarding of V-2 launchings; the enemy hustled all civilians indoors when rockets were brought to the island on long, covered truck trailers. Related the Dutch: sometimes the V-2s soared in half-circles before being sent away...
...savage fight for Walcheren Island, key to Antwerp (TIME, Nov. 13), had an almost comic ending when fussy little Lieut. General Wilhelm Daser, commander of the Wehrmacht's 70th (White Bread) Division, suddenly made up his mind to surrender...
...Walcheren island, whose capture opened the port of Antwerp to the Allies. Other sites seemed to be located in the Dutch coastal area north of the Maas. The London Evening Standard described the launching apparatus as a steel platform slightly bigger than a tennis court. "During actual launching operations," said the Standard, "the ramp is constantly sprayed with jets of ice-cold water because as the rocket shoots into the air, heat develops which expands the steel frame . . . and bends...
Last Stand. The last pin to the Antwerp gate was Walcheren Island, north of the Scheldt estuary that leads to Antwerp. There some 7,000 bitter-ending Germans held fast: they had to be eliminated before the Allies could send ships in to the port. By land Walcheren could be reached only by a causeway from the pipe-shaped peninsula of South Beveland, but the Germans were holding that bottleneck with murderous fire. The Allied solution: a seaborne attack...
...estuary in assault boats and amphibious vehicles, made a pre-dawn landing on South Beveland, joined up with Canadians who had fought their way out along the isthmus. This week the attackers overran Goes, the peninsula's communications center. It only remained to press on to flooded Walcheren, blast the Nazis out of Flushing...