Word: caped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aboard the Victory, off Cadiz, on Oct. 9, 1805, Lord Nelson issued his Memorandum for the decisive battle that was to be fought twelve days later off Cape Trafalgar. The great Admiral warned his commanders to keep to their line of battle, then added a word of historic advice...
...Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield had first sighted the Scharnhorst steering for a Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers sank her. One destroyer picked...
Reconnoiterers attached to the 32nd Army Division, at General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters, led a press party in the Marines' invasion of Cape Gloucester. When Jap planes passed over, Wisconsin's bespectacled ex-governor went to New Britain's grassroots...
Next morning the huntress was near her best stalking ground. That afternoon she made her strike and closed, somewhere above the Nordkapp (North Cape), on the uppermost tip of Norway. But she found a battle, not a slaughter. The convoy she fell in with was under escort of strong forces of the British Home Fleet. Then began a long, furious, desperate running fight, as the hostile ships turned and maneuvered, while big guns thundered and baleful orange flashes cut through the grey atmosphere. Darkness brought no respite; the killers closed in; some hours later the proud Scharnhorst took her death...
...Scharnhorst was sunk this evening off the North Cape...