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...built Douglas transport was perilously close to the German fighter bases on the northern tip of Jutland. Out of a cloud, like a falcon striking at a swan, came a Nazi pursuit ship, the machine-gun muzzles along its black wings blinking like baleful orange-red eyes. The Swedish pilot sobbed a prayer or a curse, threw the wheel over, kicked his rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass...
...Lord and Chief of Naval Staff from May 1939 to last Oct. 4; some six weeks after being taken ill while returning from the Quebec Conference; in London. Son of an English lawyer and Boston-born mother, cock-hatted, hawk-faced Sir Dudley commanded a man-of-war at Jutland, later helped set up Britain's convoy system. In World War II he brilliantly organized supplies, blockades...
Best known of the arrested pastors is 45-year-old Kaj Munk, rector of Vedersoe in West Jutland. He is not only famed for his preaching ("like a rain of sparks from a lightning rod") but is also Denmark's No. 1 playwright (Cant, An Idealist, The Word...
...German officer was stamped to death by Danish boots in Oldense. A German troop train exploded on its way north to Aalborg. The powerhouse at Aarhus went out, forcing shutdowns through East Jutland. Night fires broke out in Copenhagen's port and three locomotives were wrecked at Varde...
...Esbjerg on the Jutland coast, which is a forbidden zone and heavily mined against invasion, the Germans ordered curfew after 10. Organized workers struck, shopkeepers followed their lead, the banks closed and the baking ovens were allowed to cool. Allied flags appeared, waved, vanished and appeared again farther down the street. The Danes kept impassive faces, continued to stare through approaching Germans. After three days the baffled Kommandantur withdrew the curfew...