Word: helgoland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's tribute to the effectiveness of this campaign has been her effort to retaliate by sending bombers across the North Sea to Helgoland and Sylt, the aerial mine layers' bases. In December, big British Blenheims and Wellingtons encountered repelling squadrons of the fast new Messerschmitt 110s, flown out from Helgoland by Germany's ablest young pilots under Lieut. Colonel Karl Schumacher. Later Schumacher and his men (see cut) appeared before neutral correspondents in Berlin and asserted they had shot down 35 ships out of some 50 allegedly sent over by Britain. Britain listed her losses...
...look at the Firth of Forth and got his tail stung for his pains. But the 16th war week's biggest air battle was an Anglo-Nazi wrangle over what happened last fortnight when a large force of Vickers Wellington bombers was tackled by Messerschmitt fighters based on Helgoland. Britain continued to claim that she lost only seven and downed twelve (out of perhaps 36) Messerschmitts; that the virtue of close formation bomber flying was proved to the hilt; that Germany's new Me-110s, twin-motored and twin-cannoned, with top speed of 379 m.p.h., are good...
...fast new twin-motored Messerschmitts were described not only as potent fighters but as ships capable of protecting bombing missions beyond the ordinary range of German pursuits. The whole Helgoland performance, said the Germans, proved the futility of attempting to bomb without fighter escorts-a notable admission since the Germans have used no escorts in their bombing of British Fleet bases...
While the cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles were holing up the Graf Spee in the South Atlantic; while the R. A. F. harried Helgoland and two British submarines smacked the Nazi Navy in its own waters (TIME, Dec. 25)-across the North Atlantic, obscured by these events, and by winter fog and an efficient blanket of censorship, a large group of long, grey shapes proceeded methodically in eight days from Halifax, N. S. to a port in west Britain.* In that camouflaged convoy were such crack passenger liners as Aquitania, Batory, Empress of Britain. Guarding them was Britain...