Word: helgoland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four days later the British went back to Helgoland Bight and found the Messerschmitts waiting for them. In what the British called "fierce fighting" and the Germans "a terrific battle," the British (according to the British) got twelve Messerschmitts and lost seven bombers. According to Berlin, the British lost 34 bomb ers, the Germans two Messerschmitts...
LONDON--British bombers today were said to have scored "direct hits" on a German cruiser and other German warships near Helgoland to have shot down an attacking plane, and to have run safely a gaunflet of anti-aircraft to their bases...
...most two dozen British planes attack the German naval bases at Wilhelms-haven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel with only minor success; perhaps half that many attack Helgoland Bight, most of them never to return...
...commission. First British air raid of World War II was on battleships anchored in Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel, with the sinking of one and damaging of another battleship claimed. Last week the Royal Air Force retorted to the Nazis' North Sea raids by sending bombers to Helgoland. The British story about this was: "In spite of formidable anti-aircraft fire, the attacks were pressed home at low altitude [i. e., dive bombing]. Some of our aircraft have not yet returned." The Germans claimed they shot down five out of six British planes, suffered no damage...
Hearing that the British Fleet was being divided to protect its coasts from submarine raids, Admiral Scheer of the bottled-up German High Seas Fleet determined to venture an attack from his bases back of Helgoland. The British caught on, steamed to meet the Germans, and Admiral Beatty's battle cruisers encountered Admiral Hipper's cruisers when both sent scouts to investigate a small merchantman about 2 p.m. Beatty, with the western light at his back, took a shellacking from the German guns. When Admiral Jellicoe got there with the Grand Fleet, Scheer turned directly about and fled...