Word: gneisenau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Brest, the Nazi battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, with attendan' ships and planes, suddenly cut through the English Channel to home bases in the North Sea (see p. 27). Nightmarishly the U.S. looked at two new and fearful words: GERMAN FLEET...
...plummeting shriek of bombs was the first warning the Germans had that there was something new over the western front. Thirty thousand feet above the battleship Gneisenau, lying camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective...
...Scharnhorst was waiting for a new propeller, British Intelligence reported. The battleship and her sister, the Gneisenau, had lain in Brest for over three months, and frequently R.A.F. reconnaissance took her picture, to make sure she was still waiting...
Immediately the R.A.F. organized giant raids to put not only the Scharnhorst but the Gneisenau back on the casualty list. For the first time the R.A.F. reported using U.S.-built Flying Fortresses, which are easily capable of bombing from 30,000 ft. When the raiders left Brest the Gneisenau had received seven direct hits. Smaller bombers tackled and hit the Scharnhorst at La Pallice...
...British claimed they had confirmation last week that the battleship Gneisenau had been bombed and definitely crippled as it lay in the harbor of Brest. That left Germany just two battleships (Tirpitz and Scharnhorst} and one pocket battleship (Lutzow or Admiral Scheer) in operation...