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...Germans were threatening U.S. and British command of the Atlantic: Dakar was already almost in Nazi grasp; one of Britain's proudest ships had gone down before a new German dreadnought off Greenland and the proudest ship of the German Navy had been sunk by the British off Brest (see p. 21); Germany's top admiral and the Japanese were talking of war if the U.S. gave further naval help to Britain (see p. 27). Unless the U.S. once again took a firm stand for freedom of the seas (see p. 14), the U.S. might not much longer...
...darkness Saturday night, the British warships lost contact with the raider but a long-range Catalina scouting plane (a twin-engine American-built flying boat from the Consolidated plant in San Diego) spotted her again Sunday noon making for the French ports. Monday afternoon, about 400 miles west of Brest, she was attacked by wave after wave of fleet-based bombers and planes from the Ark Royal. Two torpedoes struck her, one amidships and the other astern...
...Mediterranean where they are not useful in the Battle of the Atlantic. The Germans took advantage of this situation, risking their fastest surface ships in commerce raiding. Last week the German radio declared that Chief of Staff Grand Admiral Erich Raeder (rhymes with raider) had gone to Brest and pronounced the Scharn-horst and Gneisenau, which the British had had nearly three weeks to bomb, "ready for renewed service in the Battle of the Atlantic...
...lucky searchlight hit similarly caught the British armored cruiser Black Prince unawares at Jutland, the last big night engagement, and she blew up. * This week the R.A.F. announced that bomber pilots had found the Atlantic raiders Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest, had dropped bombs all around them...
...week long the R. A. F. answered this new fury with fury, by hitting out at U-boat bases and airfields along the French and Lowlands coast. In a two-hour raid on Brest they caught an Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser repairing in dock. But though concentrating on submarine bases, the R. A. F. showed that it was still taking the long view. It was officially stated that the Short Stirling bomber, for which the British claim the best speed-range-load performance yet, was in service. It was unofficially guessed that the plane which flew to Cracow, Poland...