Word: battleship
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Half a mile off the selected landing spot, they placed destroyers. Three miles behind the destroyers, a cruiser or battleship took station. Between the light and heavy war ships were transports. An aircraft carrier nested in their midst...
...battleship, one target training ship, one mine layer and three destroyers...
...battleship, three submarines, five cruisers...
Worse than the humiliation was the new fear. Now the Germans could assemble a pretty formidable fleet-the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket battleships Lützow and Admiral Scheer, the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin (and perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet...
...sank Japan's third British battleship...