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From a handful of bare facts, neutral naval observers last week pieced together a story: Through the mine-strewn, net-hung waters of Helgoland Bight two divisions (three or four ships each) of British submarines made their way fortnight ago. Their highly risky mission was to sneak up and pot-shoot German warboats anchored at their bases, perhaps to intercept a squadron sallying out of harbor. One division belonged to the 640-ton Swordfish class. Two of its ships were the Seahorse and Starfish. The other division belonged to the 540-ton Unity class. One of its ships...
...command as he is adamant in his demands upon it. His men have flown more than five million miles since war began. They call him "The Vicar of Western Europe" and he calls his domain "My Parish." It extends from 1,000 miles west in the Atlantic to Helgoland Bight and Sylt and from Gibraltar to Arctic ice. So exacting is he about evidence from his pilots for their exploits that one of them lately whined: "Pretty soon Ginger'll want us to reach out and bring back the bloody periscope before he believes...
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...