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ARMY & NAVY Sky Battleship...
...list of biggest everythings, last week the U. S. added the B-19, a 70-ton flying battleship, capable of flying to Europe and back at from 200-300 m.p.h. with a 28-ton "useful" load of bombs, fuel, crew, miscellaneous cargo.* "Useful" load is not to be confused with bomb load; how much the bomb load is in the B-19 the Army did not care to say. care...
...week: "Where do we stand on balance? . . . We lost 63,000 tons of warship or about half the losses in the first six months of the last war." Same time Mr. Churchill admitted, since the 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...
...Where Germans scuttled their own navy after World War I, sank a British battleship in World...
...German High Command announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...