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Belgian Art Sunk to Save From Foe
Dr. Charles W. Flint recounts how Belgians used light and sound timing to warn and shelter from the German 1650-pound big Bertha near Bruges. He also details art salvaging by rolling Van Dyck paintings into pipes and sinking them in canals to protect treasures from invasion.
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Dunkirk
Big Bertha
Bruges
Belgium
Charles W. Flint
Cornell College
Syracusa
Aniversity
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Flint
London
Methodist Churches of the World
Europe
Vis
Paris
Weing Connois
Vans Dykes
Dr. Flint
Strate
Peterborough
England
Altha
Rome
Verdun
France
Cornel‘Nan
Dr. Plint
Marcel
Urse
Marcel W
Flancee
Mesopotamia
Cornell
New York Avenue Methodist Church
Brooklyn
Middleton
Conn
James Roscoe Day
Syracuse University
Day
Syracuse
Episcopal Church
United States
Allright