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Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
Near her in the quiet fjord lay the crack 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen. She had been badly shaken. But Britain's airmen made no bet that the Eugen would not soon be ready for work again...
...almost 200,000 troops, double the number that guarded Norway last fall. The powerful battleship Tirpitz, which recently weathered a British torpedo-plane attack, lay under the sheltering guns of Trondheim Fjord. With her were the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Were the Nazis about to move against Britain's supply lines to Russia's Arctic ports? Or were they plotting a foray against U.S.-held Iceland...
...Prinz Eugen, a fast and tough 10,000-ton cruiser, had slipped out of Brest with the battleships. She could be a scourge to Atlantic convoys. Last week First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander announced that a 10,000-ton German cruiser, apparently the Eugen, had taken a torpedo in the North Sea from a British submarine. The Eugen has multi-compartment torpedo protection: but, like the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, she was laid up for a while...
LONDON--A British submarine has torpedoed the German cruiser Prinz Eugene, and the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau lie severely damaged at North Sea Ports, but the Nazis are still building submarines faster than the Allies can sink them, First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander told the House of Commons today...