Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
...Pilots reported that systematic bombing has virtually neutralized Rabaul, once-formidable key base of the Jap defenses in the Bismarck Archipelago. All enemy warships have been withdrawn from Rabaul; merchant shipping is less than 50% of normal...
...oppose a union of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria, prefer to draw Austria into a bloc with Czechoslovakia and Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...
...rueful success when the unarmored merchant cruiser Jervis Bay tackled a heavy raider force and went down with her guns blazing, saving a convoy by her sacrifice. But it paid off richly in the destruction of the Graf Spee, paid off again in the trapping and sinking of the Bismarck, paid off in every engagement with the hapless Italian Fleet, paid off in the timely sinking of the battleship Scharnhorst (TIME, Jan. 3). Last week it paid off once more: in the Bay of Biscay, two British warships closed with and sank three enemy destroyers, damaged several others, also sank...
...other major German warships, the 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz (sister of the lost Bismarck) is still out of action from torpedo hits by British midget subs. The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper-all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value. The pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from...