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Word: ypenburg (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...neglect other objectives. Like farmers at their fall planting of death, pilots plowed the fields of Nazi airmen at Schiphol and Ypenburg in the Netherlands, around Calais, at Dunkirk, Abbeville, Antwerp; sowed seeds in the fertile congestion of Berlin; weeded out Channel gun emplacements near Boulogne; fertilized with grimness barges on the coast, oil tanks and rail sidings throughout the German areas, and special objectives like the Bosch spark-plug factory at Stuttgart, the docks at Hamburg, Marelli magneto plant near Turin, an aluminum factory at Bitterfeld, huge power plants at Genoa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Fall Planting | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

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