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What distinguished the actual occupation was that the Führer personally "struck" from the sea. As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft. In the face of this attack the Lithuanian Navy, consisting of one 22-year-old, 500-ton patrol ship (a rebuilt German minesweeper), which mounts two three-inch guns and three machine guns, puffed out to sea for destination unknown, as homeless as the Flying Dutchman. Herr Hitler...
...Meanwhile, Herr Hitler planned to remain in the big new Chancellery at Berlin until April i, when he is to go to Wilhelmshaven to launch a new 35,000-ton battleship. He is then to go to his mountain retreats in Bavaria, but is to return to Berlin in time for his soth birthday, April...
Residents watched for one car with a battleship searchlight on top, one with bulletproof steel shutters, another with a small pipe organ perched on the running board. The richest and most eccentric group of men in the world were coming to town for the annual meeting of the Indian Chamber of Princes...
...rein forced by Italian submarines, destroyers and lesser craft. Both sides lost heavily during the war. There were about eight engagements during which the Franco fleet's most notable losses were the battle ship España and the cruiser Baleares, Besides losing several submarines, the Loyalist battleship Jaime I, "pride of the fleet," was irreparably damaged, is now laid up at Cartagena...
...will be first used next month when the King goes to Newcastle for the launching of the new 35,000-ton battleship King George V. Safety feature of the new Daimler: the glass is bulletproof...