Word: jutland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into firing range or draw a bead on her. A destroyer trying it would likely get sunk. A mine could only sting the Iowa. Her heavy guns match any on land or sea, and with them she could have taken on the whole German battle fleet of Jutland. On the surface, these new ships can take care of themselves...
...large amount of Navy thinking in the past-by Secretary Knox as well as the admirals-has been built on the Jutland-Trafalgar tradition of great fleet battles, meeting enemy line to line in a great slugging match. But sea battles are now fought by aircraft while the fleets lie over the horizon (cf. Coral Sea and Midway) and the fleet's main job is to keep the sea lanes open...
...after the Battle of Jutland, Flight Commander F. J. Rutland dove from the deck of the seaplane carrier Engandine to rescue a wounded rating whom a ship's heave had plunked into the sea. A proud Britain awarded Hero Rutland one of its most sparingly given decorations: the gold Albert Medal...
More than a month had passed since Midway, and the pattern of the greatest and probably the most decisive naval battle since Jutland still lay in the public mind like an ill-matched jigsaw puzzle, confused and without fit. At last the Navy issued its official report, and the pieces dropped into their places...
Jellicoe and Scheer commanded from their bridges at Jutland, but today things are different. Chester Nimitz has commanded submarines, and cruiser and battleship divisions, but he has never trod the bridge of the fleet flagship in action. And under today's condition of warfare he probably never will. That is why Texas-born Chester Nimitz had need of his famed, monumental patience last week...