Word: lutzow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...
...announced that the pocket battleship Deutschland, sinker of the British armed merchantman Rawalpindi (and little else), reached home "recently." The occasion for giving out this information was the announcement that her name would be taken from her and given to "a bigger ship." Her new name would be the Lutzow, taken from a new 10,000-ton cruiser not yet commissioned. Some hopeful Allied experts hoped the real reason for this name change was that the Deutschland had been sunk by the Salmon or one of the three British submarines lost in action last month...