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...Italians had at least one 35,000-ton battleship (probably the Littorio), with 15-in. guns; the Trento and the Trieste, heavy cruisers with 8-in. guns; three or four light, 6-in.-gun cruisers of the Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...
...British ships great geysers rose in the sea. They were misses from the 15-in. Italian guns; any one of the shells could have demolished a British ship. Not one was a hit. One of the cruisers dashed out of the smoke and for ten minutes defied the Italian battleship. The Italians came within 10,000 yards of the British-for the 15-in. guns, easy range. Still the wretched Italian gunnery spared the British...
After a proper tea, the cruisers again sortied out of the smoke. Ahead of one cruiser loomed the battleship, a bare 6,000 yards away. Its forward turrets were a solid, orange wall of flame. The British gunners knew that their shells could do no more than annoy the battleship. But they fired away. A British destroyer careened out of the smokescreen. The captain was certain that he holed the battleship with a torpedo. Another destroyer captain believed that he got a second hit. The battle ship did not sink, but it had had enough. At dusk, after five hours...
Vichy noted nervously that 1,500 British men between 18 and 50 were living on the French Moroccan coast near the naval base of Casablanca. There lay Vichy's great battleship, Jean Bart, and 40-odd smaller craft that Adolf Hitler would like either to use himself or to have used for Axis purposes under Vichy's flag. Last week Vichy ordered British on the French Moroccan coast to move inland...
...poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back has sagged a trifle, he still has plenty of life in him: this year he will take care of from ten to a dozen mares...