Word: emden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back-roomers wanted to see for themselves. Squadron Leader Garner got permission to take a machine-gun post and fly all the way to Emden to see one drop. "After all," he said, "if you've got up some new idea it's only fair to go along and see how it works." Air Commodore Huskinson could not go to see. In a German raid on London fortnight ago, he went to his window to see what Nazi bombs looked like as they fell. One fell close by, its blast flooded his eyes with blood...
LONDON--Royal Air Force raiders bombed the great German naval bases and shipbuilding yards at Emden and Wilhelmshaven for hours last night and early today, starting fires visible 50 miles, the Air Ministry reported tonight...
...port and naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
Execution. How elastic was the German plan of invasion, how alert and audacious its execution, was seen when the campaign's only major slip-up occurred. The destruction of the cruisers Emden and Blücher by unquisled Norse in Oslo Fjord so seriously disrupted matters that no more Nazi troops landed in Oslo Fjord by ship for two and one-half days. Without batting an eye, General von Falkenhorst, who had meantime alighted on the Oslo airport with a battalion, proceeded to bring more troops into the Oslo district the same way he got there: by Junkers transports...
...pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed. The sinking of the Gneisenau was claimed by the Norwegians in the confusion of the first attack. The British merely claimed that the Scharnhorst was damaged in an engagement with the Renown.) By omission, Admiral Raeder tacitly confirmed the loss of the Emden and four other light cruisers, the destruction of twelve destroyers, the torpedoing of the Admiral Scheer, the damaging of the Scharnhorst and loss of 30 transport vessels...