Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand German troops piled out of a fleet of bombers which had just roared into Vienna's Aspern airport, the vanguard of motorized forces which did not arrive until later that morning. These troops were the escort of Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun...
...small cruisers, four destroyers, about half the battle fleet of Leftist Spain put out from its Cartagena base in southeastern Spain one night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some...
...existence of [Navy Department] reports on the vulnerability of an attacking fleet is not denied. I have been told that I could see the reports if I would keep them secret. . . . Obviously the secret is one that is being kept from the American people. . . . The same amount of money now being sought for big battleships, invested in pursuit planes and bombers, would make the United States invulnerable. If that is not true, let it be proved untrue...
Revelation No. 1: Very simply Klim mentioned the hitherto unknown fact that Admiral Vladimir Orlov, who recently "disappeared" from his post as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy, and Admiral A. K. Sivkov, who "disappeared" from command of the Baltic Fleet, "have been wiped off the face of the earth as fascist bandits, traitors and spies...
...appearances, three navies. In 1775 the Continental Congress organized a national navy and appointed a committee to regulate its activity. But the committee, like many another at the time, had weak hands, and because of this and an absence of funds, the navy engaged in no fleet action. It did, however, indirectly determine the chief policy of our Navy Department until modern times. For the sea force, which at no point had more than three thousand men and twenty ships, made its objective the attacking of British commerce, while in later wars it was the protection of our commerce from...