Word: bismarck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Knox in a recent Collier's article perhaps enjoyed telling the "secret" (kept till then by newsmen) that a U.S. airman was aboard the plane which spotted the Bismarck'and called the British fleet in for the kill. Again, although Winston Churchill was all for letting the public know about his meeting with the President as soon as it took place, Franklin Roosevelt, gleeful over his private secret, interposed every obstacle then and later to letting out even the most innocuous information...
More & more accounts agreed that one city at least has been really pulverized: Hamburg. Attacks on that vital city in May gutted the huge shipyards of Blohm & Voss, which in peacetime built the Europa, Majestic, Leviathan, Kungsholm, many other giants, and against war built the Bismarck and many destroyers.* In town the Stock Exchange, the Deutsche Bank, the Industriepalast, the Defaka Department Store, the Carl Schultze Theater were among buildings completely burned or knocked down. One of the principal business streets, Möckebergstrasse, was once closed to traffic for three days. Civilian casualties have been high: in some cases...
...sinking by the Royal Navy of the Nazi Bismarck, which had just sunk the British Hood, all but one of these things were true...
...Bismarck was the world's most powerful battleship...
...with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane Bristol Beauforts, clean as whistles...