Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the 51,731-ton luxury liner Bremen, missing for six weeks, was discovered in the place where she had been most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a full month. The account of her hair-raising northward run from New York, through the British blockade to sanctuary, came from Elbert Post, ship's cook, only Dutchman in her crew. Repatriated, he gave the story of the Bremen's, last voyage to the Amsterdam newspaper, Het Volk...
...China were little more than proving grounds. So far as is known, the biggest concentrated air bombardment to date occurred when new-type bombs whistled down on Barcelona New Year's Eve, 1938. At various times dozens of Fascist bombers operated in formation over Spain and, according to German accounts, as many as 800 attacked Polish fortifications in concert last month. But to airmen the world over this still remains white-chip stuff...
...most two dozen British planes attack the German naval bases at Wilhelms-haven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel with only minor success; perhaps half that many attack Helgoland Bight, most of them never to return...
...Numerous British leaflet raids over German territory, at least one reconnaissance flight reaching Berlin...
...Biggest air attack so far came last week. Late one rainy afternoon, a British naval squadron ran across two or three German vessels "southwest of Norway." They gave pursuit, and chased the German ships all night. Next day a force of German bombers appeared and attacked, echelon after echelon. Germans later claimed ten direct hits, six with heavy bombs, four with medium. The British reported that one shot came close enough to splatter splinters on a cruiser. Two German planes, either crippled or lost, made forced landings in Danish territory, one went down off the Danish coast...