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...first time since Jutland, a German navy could look forward to operations on blue water, not as skulking submarine raiders, nor like the Graf Spec and Bismarck, running for their lives before the pursuing British, but as a force that could stand and fight, or leap to a kill. Now, once again, Germany had a fleet in being. That fleet was small, but it was well built, new and powerful. It was gathered in the north, where it could strike as a unit...
...years later the promise was made good. As the German scouting force put out into the Skagerrak, leading the High Seas Fleet, heading into the greatest battle in modern naval history, Jutland, Vice Admiral Hipper paced the bridge of the scouting force flagship Lützow, with his binoculars dangling on the breast of his blue greatcoat. In the chart room near by stood Franz Hipper's chief of staff: Erich Raeder, brave in the four stripes of a captain...
...Jutland she was a newfangled seaplane tender named Engadine. Now she was the Corregidor, a dumpy, inter-island steamer, and doom hung above her as she pulled away from the dock at Manila...
...aircraft carrier has come a long way since the experimental Engadine, a converted Channel steamer, first sent aloft an observation plane to find out for Admiral Beatty what was going on at the beginning of the Battle of Jutland. (The plane wobbled home with a broken gas pipe and the news that the Germans were heading south, but the Engadine failed to get this intelligence to the Fleet.) Throughout the early '20s U.S. Navy men agitated for first-class carriers, got two of the best when the Lexington and Saratoga were commissioned in 1927. First U.S. ship specifically designed...
...Navy won its first sea victory of World War II late in September, but the announcement was not made until last week. No Jutland or Trafalgar was this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather...