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...desert Army may add a page to history which will rank with Blenheim and with Waterloo. The eyes of all nations are upon...
...Blenheim reconnaissance plane skimmed in and out of the overcast above the North Sea one midnight last week chasing a Nazi seaplane. The seaplane dodged into a cloud. The Blenheim followed, lost touch with its quarry, emerged suddenly into a clear patch over the sea just off Egersund, Norway...
...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...
...Cooper's requirements when he first came to me were that the house be unpretentious, Bermudian and un-Hollywood. Lest liberal-minded fans be alienated by visions of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace, I enclose a photograph...
...dropped with them and went to work on Dutch machine-gun nests. Next came 800 fully equipped infantrymen under Lieut. Colonel von Koltitz-followed by several hundred more. Landed on the field in airplanes, they spread out, seized bridges near by, reputedly shot down every one of eight British Blenheim bombers sent over to blast them out. Three days later, when the armored units of the German Army caught up with them, they had the situation perfectly in hand...