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...troops landed. The N. W. E. F. affair, a pint-sized Gallipoli, will probably lag far behind that proportion of losses. The rating of those who ordered it, and then countermanded it, will be even lower. The Germans saluted its departure with a furious effort to sink a battleship from the air, a loud but hollow claim of having done...
...have enhanced Allied respect for Nazi air power, but did not wreck the Allies' naval balance sheet. After what they did to the German Navy, they still have a wide edge in sea power. Their air power is improving. Unless Mussolini should find in Hitler's "battleship bombed" story (see below) the inspiration to make Italy fight as she never has been known to fight before, the actual balance on armaments between the Allies and their foe was changed in the Allies' favor...
...troops at two main points. It took them off again. As the warships and transports steamed away, the German Air Force realized that there went its last chance, for perhaps some time, to carry out a long-standing order from Field Marshall Hermann Goring: at whatever cost, sink a battleship...
...death rate among their pilots may be so suicidal that mass dive-bombing will be undertaken only against such targets as last week's Junkers sighted, moving westerly off Norway: a troopship convoy escorted by warships, including "a battleship of the Queen Elizabeth class ... a cruiser of the York class...
...Allies are not in accordance with the facts. The reported sinking or beaching of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed. The sinking of the Gneisenau was claimed by the Norwegians in the confusion of the first attack. The British merely claimed that the Scharnhorst was damaged in an engagement with the Renown.) By omission, Admiral Raeder tacitly confirmed the loss of the Emden and four...