Word: bismarckers
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...Crew members of the 125-ft. Coast Guard patrol boat General Greene, home at Woods Hole, Mass, from patrol off Greenland, reported that the ship had been too close for comfort to the battle between the Hood and the Bismarck. While attacking planes roared overhead in the fog, the reverberations of the big guns shook the General Greene, and "some of the shells came mighty near our starboard side...
...world's finest, Secretary of the Navy Knox insisted last week. There were some formidable doubters. These critics of U.S. and British naval design included not only the New York Times's respected Hanson Baldwin but the British Admiralty itself. Boasting about the destruction of the German Bismarck, the Admiralty had said that she and her surviving sister ship, the Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the world. Secretary Knox proudly compared the new U.S. ships' nine 16-in. guns with Bismarck's eight 15-in. guns, declared also that the Washington, North Carolina...
Unofficial reports first had it that an Alaska cruiser, instead of an older type like the Santa Fe, was to go down in the South Dakota's vacated space. Secretary Knox said last week that the Navy was awaiting full details of the Hood and Bismarck sinkings, implied that some changes in U.S. design may result...
...Friedrich's grandson, Frederick the Great, the Kaiser must have thought, because it was Frederick the Great who built Europe's first modern army and challenged the power of the Habsburgs. Certainly his thoughts turned to his own grandfather, Wilhelm I, who under the guidance of Bismarck humbled Austria. took Alsace-Lorraine from France, and at Versailles in 1871 was proclaimed Kaiser of a united Germany...
This week the New York Times's war analyst, Hanson W. Baldwin, summed up the terrific beating which the German battleship Bismarck took before she finally went down, adjudged her design ahead of anything in the U.S. or British Navies. He concluded...