Word: graf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since Jutland, a German navy could look forward to operations on blue water, not as skulking submarine raiders, nor like the Graf Spec and Bismarck, running for their lives before the pursuing British, but as a force that could stand and fight, or leap to a kill. Now, once again, Germany had a fleet in being. That fleet was small, but it was well built, new and powerful. It was gathered in the north, where it could strike as a unit...
...Navy might start building huge rigid Zeppelin types again, heavily armed, capable of transporting as many as 1,000 parachutists, tons of bombs, and bearing within them bombing and scouting airplanes available instantly for offensive or defensive duty. The Germans have at least two large rigid airships-the Graf Zeppelin and the LZ-130, and some experts believe they constitute Hitler's boasted "secret weapon'' for the invasion of England...
...Trieste, heavy cruisers with 8-in. guns; three or four light, 6-in.-gun cruisers of the Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...
...boat nailed the 5,785-ton Montevideo 300 miles from Bermuda. Of her crew of 49, two were known dead, 13 missing. Her master was Captain José Rodríguez Varela, chairman of the committee which had denied the wounded Admiral Graf Spee more than 24 hours in Montevideo (TIME. Dec. 25. 1939). He had said: "The Germans will never forgive me for this...
Uruguay, in compensation for the Montevideo, seized the Tacoma, interned Graf Spee supply ship, suspended all sailings, clamored for convoys. Rioters looted Axis stores...