Word: helgolanders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe shivered in the worst winter of the century. "Our temperature is lower than at the North Pole," one Moscow taxi driver told his fare proudly and accurately (Moscow thermometers registered -36.4° F., as opposed to the recordings of -7.6° at the pole). On Helgoland, in the North Sea, chilled islanders gathered together 8,000 cubic meters of firewood to build a gigantic bonfire...
...supporters of this theory is Professor Rudolf Drost of the Helgoland Ornithological Institute. During the war he saw flocks of birds fly "turbulently" when hit by radar beams. Crows disconcerted in this way took several minutes to regain flyability...
...unforgettable glimpses of a foeman starting to smoke, the inescapable sounds of the typewriter-tapping of tracer on fuselage and rudder. Captain Heinz Knoke, winner of Nazi Germany's coveted Rit-terkreuz and the youngest squadron commander in the Luftwaffe, pinpoints his most vivid memory high above Helgoland, one July day in 1943. In I Flew for the Führer, Knoke tells how his Messerschmitt squadron loaded up with 500-lb. fragmentation bombs and climbed high above a formation of U.S. Flying Fortresses. To break up the deadly formation, which few German fighters could penetrate, Knoke was experimenting...
...warm sunshine to make their choice. Some,
with rucksacks on their backs, queued up before polling booths as early
as 4 a.m., voted, trudged off for holiday hikes. In Munich, a team of
boxers went to their polls in boxing trunks on the
...Wall." The boat circled Helgoland, the rocky island and former fortress 28 miles off the Schleswig-Holstein coast. Guided by Pastor Spanuth, it moved toward shore and anchored 50 stadia (5.7 miles) from Helgoland. The diver dropped overboard and walked along the sandy bottom 30 feet below the surface...