Word: balocran
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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When the score was added up, the R.A.F. claimed having wrecked-"either permanently or for a long time to come" -17 ships of about 90,000 tons, including the 17,000-ton Balocran. As is almost always the case with air attacks, this claim was doubtless super-sanguine; but if it was anywhere near the truth, the R.A.F. had in one afternoon put almost as much tonnage out of action as the Nazis do in an average week of the Battle of the Atlantic...
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