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Newest student to enroll in the Quartermaster Corps at the Business School, entering in June, is Jack Graf, 200-pound, 6-foot-1 athletic hero and campus leader at Ohio State University...
...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...
...were the two pocket battleships and the big cruisers Admiral Hipper, Seydlitz and Derfflinger. So were Germany's two new carriers Graf Zeppelin and Deutschland. Finally, there was a brand-new 40,000-ton battleship, probably Friedrich der Grosse, and a few cruisers newly completed in German and occupied yards...
...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...