Word: eugene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John A. Walz, Jr. Prize of $25, awarded to "the concentrator in German who passes the best divisional examination toward the end of his Senior year," was won by Eugen F. Burgstaller '43, of West Roxbury, Mass...
...Trondheim near week's end slipped the sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance pilots spotted the force, beep-beeped frantically on their radios for help. They got it quickly. From Britain a heavy air striking force -Beaufighters, Blenheims, Hudsons and Beaufort torpedo carriers-swept out across the North Sea. They found the Nazi force and piled in, while German fighters hacked at them...
While Beaufighters tangled with the Messerschmitts, torpedo carriers bored in on the Eugen. At least one tin fish got home, struck her fairly. A "great pillar of dirty black smoke" gushed from her superstructure and she shuddered under two mighty explosions. In the hurlyburly, Beaufighters swung down out of the sky, plastered the destroyers with bomb and machine gun and the force streaked for home. The British reported losing nine planes, knocking down five Germans. Said Berlin: "Unsuccessful-British losses 29 planes...
Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
...Like the Eugen, the 26,000-ton battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, known to Britons as S & G, had been continuously plastered in French ports. With the badgered Eugen, they had finally come out of their pit, had dashed through England's own Channel in February, dealing worse wounds to British pride than the damage they took themselves. Now the Gneisenau lay in Kiel. She seemed to have been hurt, as she had also seemed at Brest. But now she was in German home waters. So was the Scharnhorst...