Word: bismarcks
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Like her sister cans, she seldom figured in communiques, but she was beloved by the big ships whenever there was trouble. ("Screen us, Pat!") She rescued 124 men from the blazing Ommaney Bay. She rescued 106 survivors of the Bismarck Sea off Iwo Jima. She fought off Okinawa. When there was nothing else to do she carried the mail...
...flaxen-haired, Swedish-born Princess Ann Mari Bismarck and her complacent husband, Prince Otto, had enthralled Rome with their lavish entertainments. Otto had an unlimited allowance from the German Embassy and instructions to let the Princess go her calculated way. Ann Mari's grande affaire with Ciano's Chief of Cabinet, ardent Filippo Anfuso, had more than repaid Berlin...
...capabilities have been dramatized again & again in battle. It was radar that enabled a .U.S. warship to smash the battleship Jean Bart at Oran with one salvo from 26 miles away. German radar-directed fire sank the British battle cruiser Hood, and British radar in turn tracked down the Bismarck. It was a radar operator who gave the tragically ignored warning of approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor...
...calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl von Moltke made the study of past wars a prime function of the Corps...
...reason except pure niggardliness that they should not have been worked in too. Items: defeated General Robert E. Lee telling a Confederate soldier (David Bruce) that "we must move with the ages"; a Berlin correspondent for Leslie's Weekly (Rod Cameron) scooping the world on the opening of Bismarck's Austro-Prussian War, with the help of a dancer named Anna Maria (Yvonne de Carlo); Anna Maria emerging from a shell to the strains of The Blue Danube to dance some elementary ballet; an energetic cavalry battle in which her lover, a Hapsburg Prince, loses...