Word: bight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
Four days later the British went back to Helgoland Bight and found the Messerschmitts waiting for them. In what the British called "fierce fighting" and the Germans "a terrific battle," the British (according to the British) got twelve Messerschmitts and lost seven bombers. According to Berlin, the British lost 34 bomb ers, the Germans two Messerschmitts...
...most two dozen British planes attack the German naval bases at Wilhelms-haven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel with only minor success; perhaps half that many attack Helgoland Bight, most of them never to return...