Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...safe passage of the Bremen from Murmansk to Hamburg* (TIME, Dec. 25) apparently cued North German Lloyd's 32, 581-ton Columbus, third biggest of the Nazi merchant marine - tied up at Veracruz since debarking her passengers at Havana in September - to make a dash for it. When he received the order to sail home, Columbus' Captain Wilhelm Daehne had no choice but to obey, though he knew his chance of getting through was paper-thin. For weeks he trained two picked squads in the fine art of scuttling and firing ship...
...Lieut. Commander Edward Oscar ("Brubs") Bickford, 29, of the British submarine Salmon, who let the Bremen pass when he allegedly had her lined up for torpedoing, was last week awarded the D.S.O. and jumped 800 numbers to full Commander, for sinking a U-boat, puncturing a Nazi cruiser (perhaps...