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...Bismarck, which fought like fury when she was finally cornered, did not want to fight at all. Her escort was the powerful heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, but they had no destroyer screen and could expect no help from the rest of the German fleet. Their task was to hit Allied shipping and run. In foul weather, the Bismarck and her cruiser escort slipped out of Grimstad Fiord before British bombers could be put to work on them. Admiral Sir John Tovey, commander of the Home Fleet, ordered every available ship deployed to bring them to battle. Then, on the evening...
...Bismarck was spotted by a Catalina patrol plane southwest of Ireland. This time Sir John Tovey's own flagship, King George V, backed up by the battleship Rodney, the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, cruisers and destroyers, was ready to shoot it out with her. The Bismarck was alone; Prinz Eugen had escaped, was later spotted by aircraft at Brest. Before Sir John got within range, the Bismarck had been crippled by a carrier-plane torpedo attack. It was 8:47 on the morning of the 27th before the Rodney and King George V opened up. Lamed and surrounded...
Berliners last week found a strange symbol of their city and of Europe. In Prinz Handjery Strasse stands a chestnut tree. Six weeks ago, a U.S. plane flying in Operation Vittles crashed against it, killing two U.S. flyers. The flames of the crash scorched one side of the tree, whose branches now hang black and dead, while they warmed the other side into defiant, unseasonable bloom. Last week beneath the tree were small bunches of asters in a cracked, cheap drinking glass, and forget-me-nots in an empty grapefruit...
...Vienna's most magnificent squares-the Heldenplatz (Square of Heroes), with its huge statues-is now the front yard of the Russian headquarters. Russian soldiers perch like drab birds on the base of Prinz Eugen's statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
...duties . . . carried me by Pier 6 yesterday where I spotted the sleek German cruiser Prinz Eugen. ... I went topside and sighted a trio of Kraut sailors frying spuds in a section of the galley. With inadequate college German I questioned the sailors carefully, with an eye toward their ideologies. I learned that . . . the Atom Bomb was a development of German science, that Hitler was dead, that given four months Germany could have won, that freedom of speech was a sickness enjoyed by democracies and not compatible to German Natur...