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...Berlin the Luftwaffe's Lance Corporal Fran eke received the Iron Cross for sinking her. She was then about to help track down the Admiral Graf Spee off South America...
...Blenheim wirelessed its base. R.A.F. torpedo bombers roared out to sea. The pilots were taut-eyed, for this was a prize not to miss. The scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...
...Luck has contributed a spectacular share to the naval encounters of World War II. When the British knocked out the fire-control tower of the Admiral Graf Spee and when the Germans dropped a bomb smack down on the plane elevator shaft of the Illustrious, something more than skill was involved. Considering the fact that the average number of hits in sea battle at long range comes to little more than 2% of rounds fired, the hit on one of Hood's magazines from extreme range of nearly 13 miles was fantastically lucky. And the British had their share...
...From Moscow last week came a strong smell of diplomatic fermentation. On the eve of German Ambassador Friedrich Werner Graf von der Schulenburg's return from a long stay in Berlin the Russian press made two significant announcements that: 1) 12,000 German troops had landed in Finland, within 50 miles of the Russian base at Hanko; 2) since March 18 shipment of war materials across the U.S.S.R. had been forbidden...
Pleased with the scare, the British gave a further nip to American adrenals by announcing that Germany's two powerful battle cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...