Word: fiords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bismarck, all right. There, in Grimstad Fiord on the Norwegian coast, lay the new Nazi 50,000-ton battle-wagon-bigger and tougher than any British battleship afloat. The British Admiralty had been worrying about the German giant for months; now that she had slipped away from her Baltic anchorage, the Home Fleet would have a crack at her at last. When Flying Officer Suckling photographed the Bismarck from his Spitfire on a May afternoon in 1941, he touched off the greatest sea hunt in naval history...
...escort was the powerful heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but they had no destroyer screen and could expect no help from the rest of the German fleet. Their task was to hit Allied shipping and run. In foul weather, the Bismarck and her cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening of May 23, as the cruiser Suffolk hugged the mist between Iceland and Greenland, Able Seaman Newell...
...started . . . that day in the Whitehall, office. It was in that high and solemn room with a view of the Thames that we were first shown the small-scale chart of Norway with a blue circle round the fiord the island and the fortified pimple islet set off at one corner...