Word: flotilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Front. "Imagine what would have happened had we yielded to this vehement temptation [to open a second front]! Every ton of our shipping, every flotilla, every airplane, the whole strength of our Army would have been committed and fighting for life, and these troubles of the Far East and of the Middle East might have sunk into insignificance compared with the question of another and far worse Dunkirk...
Until the Nazis made him a commander of the first submarine flotilla in 1936 (he shunned formal affiliation with the Weimar regime, worked and was financed under cover), he had no official status. But years before the Nazis came to power he began preparing to rebuild Germany's U-boat Navy. There was not a single major step in the process that he did not dominate...
...kind of decoy into the estuary. A British patrol boat approached to investigate. The Japanese strung a line of laundry on the boat, to give the impression of being on a pleasure cruise. When the British vessel got close by, the Japanese opened fire. Mean while the main Japanese flotilla proceeded 14 miles farther south, landed safely...
...took over the village in less than half an hour. Eleven brass-buttoned, picture-postcard gendarmes shrugged their shoulders, helped round up their superior officers. Most administrative officers were told to stay at their posts, but suave Parisian Baron Gilbert de Bournat, Administrator, was called to account before the flotilla's commandant, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, Commander of the Free French naval forces...
...sick daughter, offered a gift of his own medicinal remedy for the child's bronchial pneumonia. As Vichy's radio station spouted claims that De Bournat had been shot, Muselier granted Madame de Bournat's request to share her husband's cabin aboard the flotilla flagship...