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...world's best anti-aircraft guns (to make up in part for Sweden's slim, 500-plane Air Force), machine guns, anti-tank guns, rifles, armored cars, tin hats. The Swedish Navy has three 7,000-ton vestpocket battleships carrying 11-inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy...
...amount of steel and high explosive onto the Stavanger field, while Allied bombers attacked at Trondheim to ground Nazi planes there. The British ships got away before full daylight, said the British Admiralty, under a shower of 115 German bombs of which only one was a hit, on a cruiser which was able to reach home port...
Turkey. If the rival mobs began to shoot it out in the Southeast, a good deal of the gunplay would take place in Turkey's front yard, the Dardanelles. With Italy's fleet on the prowl, Turkey sent her 23,000-ton, model 1911 battle cruiser Yavuz (the onetime famed German raider Goeben) and other naval units into the Sea of Marmara lying between the Dardanelles and the Bosporus. Russia began maneuvers in the Black Sea after having laid mines off her main port Odessa and the oil port Batum...
...Warspite's truck when she shouldered into Narvik flew the flag of Vice Admiral William ("Jock") Whitworth, Commander of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, at heart a small-ship man, "the Beatty of this war." He has twin sons, aged 29, in the Navy. Commander of the Destroyer Flotillas is Vice Admiral Ronald H. C. Hallifax whose flagship, the light cruiser Aurora, was air-bombed the same day as Sir Charles's Rodney and with like effect...
Icelandic waters were infested with German so-called "fishing steamers" whose mother ship was the 5,400-ton Nazi cruiser Emden. Queries from Reykjavik as to why the Emden constantly hung about near Iceland's capital drew from Berlin polite assurances that this was a gesture of "honor and respect." Earlier, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Wilhelm Göring had the whole terrain of Iceland and Greenland minutely inspected by a corps of German so-called "genealogists," "geologists" and "experts in falconry." Reykjavik meanwhile suddenly sprouted an Icelandic Nazi Party of native stooges with German paymasters. Preparations...