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...answer to a letter of condolence from his Editor Frank Barham (Los Angeles Herald and Express), who reminded the boss that he had been one of the rare outsiders acceptable to Helen, Hearst columnized...
Action. The British capital ships-Warspite (30,600 tons, 15-inchers), Valiant (sister) and Barham (35,100 tons, 15-inchers)-worked along with caution. Destroyers screened them. All crews were at battle stations: spotters crouching behind cold searchlights, signalers at smaller lights, gun crews working with dims, secondary TIME, April 7, 1941 batteries all set with star shells. Control officers strained their hungry eyes...
...Admiral Cunningham ordered fire switched to the next in line. This was the Zara, sister to Fiume. Again the first salvo struck fire. The Pola, another sister of Fiume and Zara, was engaged. At one stage both Pola and Zara hung white sheets over their sides to indicate surrender. Barham blew the destroyers Vincenzo Gioberti (1,729 tons, 4.7-in. guns) and the Maestrale (1,449 tons, 4.7-in. guns) to bits as they tried to duck into smoke screens...
When General de Gaulle and his force (identified by the defenders as the battleships Barham and Resolution, four cruisers, six destroyers, six transports, but probably including three French gunboats taken by the British after the fall of France) arrived at Dakar, they got the surprise of their lives. The commander dispatched two airplanes ashore with an invitation to surrender. The planes did not return. General de Gaulle and some aides-including Captain Bécourt Foch, grandson of the late Marshal-boarded a launch and made for the basin, waving a white flag and a tricolor. They were greeted...
...well-kept secret had at last leaked out in Germany, that in December the battleship Nelson, once flagship of the Home Fleet, was damaged by a mine, is being repaired. Also he revealed that the battleship torpedoed (but not sunk) after convoying the first Canadians in January was the Barham...