Word: fog
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...defending parties. The defending warships threw out a smoke screen to hide the flashes of their guns. Bombardment be- gan under battle conditions. Cutting through the sea at full speed, the 850-ton destroyers Warabi and Ashi rode out to meet the "enemy," dashing fearlessly through the man-made fog. Out of the gloom rose of a sudden two ironclad monsters, the 6,000-ton cruisers Jintsu and Naka. Too late to turn, useless to reverse en- gines-into the hulking cruisers the tiny destroyers crashed with deaf- ening impact. In 15 minutes the Warabi was lying 60 fathoms beneath...
...light fog clung to the flat, glassy sea between Ambrose Light and Fire Island, N. Y. Captain Maurice Aubert had just ordered a change in course, and for a horrid second, thought he had run aground when the France, with nothing but a limpid swell around her, listed with violent suddenness. Captain Aubert remembered his soundings of a moment before and knew the France could not possibly have touched bottom. This flash of certainty was verified as the ship's sudden list reversed itself, became a sharp roll. Looking overside, Captain Aubert beheld the sea in a cold boil...
...Bremen, early separated from her sister plane, apparently avoided the fog. London reported the plane unofficially over the North Sea; later also unofficially over Yorkshire...
...Europa ran into an inky fog over the North Sea, turned back, tried to skirt the fog; failed; came down near Bremen, Germany, slightly damaged. The pilots said that attempting navigation through the fog would have been suicide...
After 22 hours, out of the dense fog that now covered most of Germany the Bremen coasted to earth again back in Dessau. It too had been repulsed by a wall of blackness. Said Pilot Loose: "Nobody could fly in that weather. . . ." Herr Professor Hermann Junkers, grieving but not disconsolate, rushed the preparation of a third plane...