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German Soldiers Advancing Through Dusty Fields on Military Vehicles To Cut Off Allied Units in France, 1940. Second World War. 'Now, through a gap fifty miles wide, Army Group A drives to sever the Allied armies in two, hellbent on reaching the Channel coast. If the roads are blocked, whole divisions and their armour take to the fields, hardly even pausing as they shoot up enemy units in the woods while passing'. From "Time To Remember - Run Rabbit Run", 1940 ( Reel 3); documentary film about events of early months of 1940.