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Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army...
...This afternoon, Dec. 26, the German battleship Scharnhorst was brought to action by units of the Home Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser...
...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...
...Long before dawn of D Day the first wave of Marines was in its boats, the second wave was climbing down the nets in half-moonlight. At 5 a.m. the sky lit up like the crack of doom: battleship guns were pounding Betio. Soon light and heavy cruisers joined the concert of inferno. Ashore, flames spurted hundreds of feet high. Surely, the Marines thought, mortal men could not stand such pounding...
King stipulated, however, that no officer could be promoted to flag rank unless he had commanded a major fleet unit (battleship, carrier, heavy cruiser). Oddest working of this variable rule: Charles E. Rosendahl had to command a cruiser (and won the Navy Cross in battle) before he was deemed fit to be a rear admiral and commander of all the Navy's airships...