Word: intercepting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Signal Corps this week had its eye on a brand-new weapon: falcons to intercept enemy homing pigeons...
...hours later the Bismarck went down fighting after the briefest and wildest career of any modern battleship. With all the available sea power of Britain mobilized to intercept her before she could get back to her base, Berlin announced just after midnight Tuesday morning that for four hours the Bismarck had been "again engaged in a heavy fight with superior British naval units." Early Tuesday morning, the Bismarck radioed that she had been incapacitated, but "we will fight to the last hand grenade." And the last message before the Bismarck sank at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning said: "Ship...
Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
...down on the accelerator. Over the Andalusian and Estremaduran plains they tore madly for 100 miles. The police were left far behind and, since most telephone and telegraph lines in southwestern Spain were still out of business due to last month's hurricane, there was no way to intercept the fugitive pair. They abandoned the automobile near the frontier, proffered faked passports and entered Portugal...
...home consumption the Italian accounts made heady reading-most necessary so soon after Taranto. But certain prime facts remained: 1) the Italian Fleet had run from the British, as always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...