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With the German radio-detector station near Le Havre brilliantly eliminated (see p. 24), R.A.F. flyers reconnoitered and raided German sea bases again & again, in good weather and filthy. They found, photographed and bombed the Gneisenau at Kiel, the Scharnhorst at Wilhelmshaven...
...scourge to Atlantic convoys. Last week First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander announced that a 10,000-ton German cruiser, apparently the Eugen, had taken a torpedo in the North Sea from a British submarine. The Eugen has multi-compartment torpedo protection: but, like the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, she was laid up for a while...
LONDON--A British submarine has torpedoed the German cruiser Prinz Eugene, and the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau lie severely damaged at North Sea Ports, but the Nazis are still building submarines faster than the Allies can sink them, First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander told the House of Commons today...
Worse than the humiliation was the new fear. Now the Germans could assemble a pretty formidable fleet-the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket battleships Lützow and Admiral Scheer, the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin (and perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet...
...Bitter. Although the disastrous rout in Malaya held the gravest military consequences for the United Nations, it would not, by itself, have provoked the violent political storm which began raging in Britain at week's end. The escape of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, however, was an altogether different cup of tea. Hitler could not have concocted a bitterer brew. Any reverse at sea makes an Englishman gulp. But the violation of the English Channel by a mediocre Nazi fleet made the British definitely...