Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over Guadalcanal and the outlying Russell Islands suddenly appeared 120 Jap aircraft, only 16 less than the U.S. and Australians used in the Bismarck Sea. Just what the Japs hoped to accomplish with this formidable force was hard to see: no important shipping was in the area, according to Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and the Japs surely knew by then that the American positions were well defended. U.S. fighters tore into the Jap formations, shot down 77 bombers and Zero-type fighters. Ack-ack accounted for 17 more. U.S. loss: six planes (plus, probably, some others temporarily damaged...
Whatever their purpose, it was up to Allied war power to do what it could to stop them-and it was on the record that in his last major engagement (Bismarck Sea), Kenney had used exactly 136 planes...
Next day, in a soft voice and broken accent, Eduard Benes addressed the two Houses of Congress, recalled for his listeners Bismarck's once-famed phrase: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Added the Czech President: "Europe must, therefore, never allow any nation except the Czechs to rule it [Bohemia], since that nation does not lust for domination...
Grey-haired, twitchy-fingered Austin Cross, Parliamentary reporter of the Montreal Star, is a student of capital cities. He has visited Washington and the 48 U.S. State capitals (reserving Bismarck, N.Dak. for last), the ten Provincial capitals of Canada. But the capital he knows best is Ottawa, and last week he had Canadians atwitter with a rollicking book about the Ottawa scene...
Arnim is unlike most of the Wehr-macht's professional military men in that he comes of a noble and wealthy landed family. The family has boasted admirals, generals, statesmen (one, who had been ambassador to France in Bismarck's time, was accused of embezzling state papers and fled Germany), poets (one was the romanticist Ludwig Achim von Arnim, author of Des Knaben Wunderhorn...