Word: blenheims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first British Hurricane fighters and Blenheim bombers reported over the Indies joined U.S. and Dutch Air Forces in attacks on Jap-laden barges, transports and warships. Bombs smashed two cruisers and five transports, spread death in the barges. Hurricane pilots, probably fresh from Singapore, made six flights in a day from Palembang's airdrome, retired to Java only when the airdrome was lost...
...Blenheim and Waterloo. To men standing with their rain-soaked kit, conscious that in a few hours they might be dead or maimed, those words gave a little more pleasant feeling...
...desert Army may add a page to history which will rank with Blenheim and with Waterloo. The eyes of all nations are upon...
Here if anywhere was Britain's second front to help the Russians. Here if anywhere was Britain's chance to knock the Eyeties out of the war. Churchill and his Cabinet, after spouting about a Blenheim and a Waterloo, would very likely stand or fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next...
...Blenheim wirelessed its base. R.A.F. torpedo bombers roared out to sea. The pilots were taut-eyed, for this was a prize not to miss. The scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...