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...march to the Rhine. >Italy is a springboard to the Balkans, where the passes and valleys, although few and difficult, lead to the vital Danube basin, a possible junction with the Red Army, and the shaky Nazi back door. Last week Allied sea power, in the form of a flotilla of torpedo boats, raided Albanian waters, exchanged fire with shore batteries, sank two enemy merchantmen. Italy is a base of air attack on Germany -directly from airdromes in Italy, by shuttle to & from Great Britain...
Airedales (Navy airmen) were disappointed. Mourned a bomber pilot: "We were loaded for bear and bagged a possum. What a flotilla to waste on a postage-stamp air ferrying base...
...blooded, moneyed playmate of the Prince of Wales. For various high jinks, he was blackballed from the haughty Royal Yacht Squadron. But behind the gaiety was a lot of earnest attention to naval matters. At World War II's beginning Lord Louis had command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Twice his flagship, the Kelly, was badly crippled. In May 1941 he took her into the hell of Crete. That time the Kelly was finished off and the King's handsome second cousin was lucky to escape on a life raft. Noel Coward made a movie based...
...Harvard '09) and Prince Hirohito (Princeton '22). Midnight meetings at the base of John Harvard's statue have resulted in the formulation of irrepressible strategy. The invaders will arrive by sleeper on the New Haven Railroad, augmented by a sea force which will land in Boston Harbor in a flotilla of 8-oar shells and make rendezvous at H-hour minus 10 in the Park Street subway station. (Any local Elis and Harvard Quislings wishing to contribute fare may send their dimes to D-41 McKinlock...
...earliest and shortest land-sea battles on record was a naval rout and cavalry triumph. In 1818 José Antonio Páez, a crack horseman and guerrilla leader under Simon Bolivar, sent 50 of his llaneros against a flotilla of Spanish gunboats anchored in the middle of the Apure river in Venezuela. Waving spears and howling like Oriental dervishes, they swam their barebacked white horses through the swift, brown waters. Astonished Spaniards fired a few random shots and then jumped overboard in panic. Páez took every boat, without losing...