Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces ended the Bismarck Sea action (TIME, March 15) by wiping out barges, lifeboats and rafts from the sunken enemy vessels...
...most, the German fleet in Norway consists of the 35,000-ton battleship Tirpitz, sister of the Bismarck, which was destroyed on its long dash out of Bergen two years ago; the 26,000-ton Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, repaired after their successful run through the Channel last year; the pocket battleships Admiral Scheer and Lützow; two 10,000-ton cruisers of the Hipper class; and perhaps ten destroyers...
...Move. Not since its covering action in the Guadalcanal offensive had the U.S. Navy seen action in the South Pacific. In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), unassisted Army air power had finished off 22 Jap ships. The Navy had not been heard from, but last week A.P. Correspondent J. Norman Lodge, attached to Admiral William F. Halsey's South Pacific Command, sent this dispatch through naval censorship...
Fortnight after the Japs lost 22 ships in the Bismarck Sea (TIME, March 15), the Japanese Government announced by radio that all Japanese soldiers would be taught how to swim. "The scheme has been prompted," said Tokyo Radio, "by the fact that war operations in Greater East Asia are closely connected with water...
...from denoting permanent air superiority for the Allies in the Southwest Pacific, the Bismarck victory had proved only that the airmen under Douglas MacArthur knew how to use what tools they had at hand. Real security could come only when planes and fuel were available in far greater quantities, and when the Japs had been completely driven out of the Solomons, New Guinea, New Britain and their important bases on Timor...