Word: outgun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...