Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went into action: Lieut. General Sir James Handyside Marshall-Cornwall. Sir James is one of the most versatile men in the British Army. He started as an artilleryman. He was largely responsible for training the British Intelligence Corps in the last war. He speaks French, German, Italian, Turkish, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch, Spanish, Greek and a smattering of other tongues. He has been on enough military missions to know how a score of potential allies would operate. He is a particular expert on Turkey and on Thrace. But last, as first, he is an artilleryman...
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...
...longer a competitor for the world's seaborne freight. Gone from their normal trade routes are the ten British ships formerly operated between North and South America, the 25 operated from the U.S. Atlantic Coast to the Far East, countless others. Most of the Free Dutch and Norwegian ships are also in war service in the North Atlantic...
...miles. Before the war ended, this entire front was covered by a mine barrage. This time the Germans took Norway, and France fell. From Narvik to Bayonne, 2,300 sea miles, the Germans had their choice of ports. The chart shows how sinkings spurted after the Germans took over Norwegian and French bases...
Perhaps the most important difference this time is the Germans' use of aircraft. Here again, the use of upper Norwegian and lower French bases has proved invaluable. At first the Germans used aircraft principally as eyes, and to sow magnetic mines, but with the development of two long-range fighter-bombers, the Focke-Wulf Zerstorer and Kurier, which can sweep halfway across the Atlantic and back, they began to use planes for destruction as well. The British ogling of Irish bases is not so much for the sake of the Navy as for the R.A.F., which is hampered...