Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later...
Down went three of the British bombers (according to the British) and five Messerschmitts, before the British ran for home in the growing darkness. Said the British formation leader: "The German planes burned for some time after hitting the water. . . . They looked like enormous beacons. . . . They not only lit up...
Four days later the British went back to Helgoland Bight and found the Messerschmitts waiting for them. In what the British called "fierce fighting" and the Germans "a terrific battle," the British (according to the British) got twelve Messerschmitts and lost seven bombers. According to Berlin, the British lost 34...
For its accidents as well as its accomplishments is the British Navy noted. On the same day last week that three British cruisers brilliantly defeated the Admiral Graf Spee (see above), two of the Navy's warships collided somewhere at sea and the destroyer Duchess went to the bottom...
Coming on the heels of the Bremen's escape, this made two bulls to one beat for the week. Day after the Bremen's escape, the Admiralty announced that the submarine that let her get away had sunk a German submarine, had torpedoed and damaged a German cruiser...