Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Around Bismarck, whence he came, Bill Langer has a stanch following of voters who feel that he is just as good as the next man. They twice elected him Governor. When he was tried on a charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Government in administering relief, one jury convicted him, another disagreed, a third set him free. But when his people sent him to the Senate last year, a group of North Dakota citizens protested...
...Prince of Wales was attacked by a swarm of torpedo bombers. She was hit astern, her propellers and steering gear knocked out. This was exactly the kind of blow by which the British themselves had crippled the Bismarck...
John Catterall Leach, tall, fair and skinny, was 47 years old, had won the D.S.O. for his part in the Bismarck affair. He gave a continuous running commentary of the action against the Bismarck over the public-address system for the benefit of the crew buried below. When a shell hit the compass platform beside him, killing or wounding nearly everyone. Captain Leach, though badly ruptured by the blast, continued his account until the Bismarck sank. He was hospitalized for some time, returned to the Prince of Wales in time for the Roosevelt-Churchill meeting...
...British cruiser Dorsetshire, which fired the final shot into the Bismarck, downed a converted 10,000-ton merchant ship somewhere in the South Atlantic...
Newsmen had long wanted to know how the Secretary explained the fact that an article by him in Collier's last August broke the news that a U.S. observer was aboard the American-built Catalina flying boat that spotted the Nazi battleship Bismarck and called the British fleet to the kill...