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Britain's loss of the Glorious by gunfire (in battle with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) seemed also the result of bad handling, under the Collett doctrine. He found that only "extremely bad weather" or a lucky break could enable a battleship or cruiser to close with a carrier...
...first test had been a success. When the Fortress swung back, the ship was gone in a moonslick littered with wreckage. The raider made for a cruiser, splashed three bombs into the water not a hundred feet from her, saw them hurtle to her side, watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor...
When Toreson, having killed the Nazi commander, escapes to England to lead back a Commando expedition, the mood of the picture changes: Picture No. 2 is not a story but a lesson in Commando tactics. With bagpipes wailing, the Commandos set out in an auxiliary cruiser. At dawn they slip overside into barges, swarm up the Norwegian cliffs and surprise a Nazi airfield. The camera dwells admiringly on their knife work and deadly hand-to-hand skill...
...Tactically Logical Cruiser for Modern War was what Author Peter Marsh Stanford called his unorthodox proposal. Besides four 14-in. guns it would carry, as anti-aircraft protection, twenty-four 5-in. and eighteen 40-mm. guns, four multiple pom-poms plus machine guns, six planes with two catapults on the quarterdeck and sixteen 21-in. torpedo tubes. Such a mighty cruiser, said Stanford, would be necessarily shorter, fatter and slower than the Brooklyn, but anyway "no ship can ever be designed fast enough to run away from enemy aircraft...
Said Peter Stanford of his cruiser: "She would outfight the standard cruiser of today in every way, and would restore to the fleet the logical balance of a ship to fulfill a logical duty that has been lacking...