Word: bismarcks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...main lesson was the need for coordination of all the weapons of sea warfare. Near Crete neither side was properly coordinated: Britain, lacking aircraft, lost ships, and Germany, lacking ships, lost men. But in holing the Bismarck the British used almost uncanny coordination. And the Bismarck, without planes to scout and destroyers to screen, was helpless once she was caught. British coordination was almost too keen. In its determination to catch the fat prize, the Royal Navy took a long risk - neglected convoys, deserted Gibraltar, sent out the Home Fleet, left Britain's normal supply lines and normal defenses...
...When Napoleon planned the invasion of Britain, he dreamed of just such a stripping as this, and sent his fleet as a decoy to the West Indies to try to accomplish it; but then only Nelson and the Mediterranean squadron entered the chase. With the Bismarck gone, the Germans still have her sister, the Tirpitz. If the German Navy, knowing what certain death it would be, nevertheless sent the Tirpitz out on a similar sweep, it might be a tipoff for invasion...
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...