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...bluejacket who spoke could make allowances for human curiosity. But this was something more. All week long, eager, smiling German-Americans (500 to 2,000 a day) had bustled aboard the Nazi prize cruiser Prinz Eugen to fete her Nazi crew. They carried dozens of white shirts, bags of sugar, cartons of cigarets, beer-trophies few victorious U.S. crews have received in any port...
Among the 97 ships picked for the experiment were four antiquated battleships (Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York, Arkansas); the tired old carrier Saratoga] the elderly Japanese battleship Nagato, the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen...
...preliminary plans; more must go into the organization of the great fleet which will include 40 or more sacrifice ships. There is no dearth of expendable craft, from $50,000,000 battleships (25 years old) and even more valuable carriers, to enemy vessels such as the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen...
This time Germany had no surface fleet to warrant a show like last war's scuttling at Scapa Flow. Her two largest combat vessels still afloat were cruisers, the Prinz Eugen and the Nürnberg. They signed off by shelling Copenhagen, then gave up to the British in Copenhagen harbor-along with scores of smaller warships and 160,000 tons of merchant shipping. Several destroyers surrendered in Norway...
...other major German warships, the 41,000-ton battleship Tirpitz (sister of the lost Bismarck) is still out of action from torpedo hits by British midget subs. The Scharnhorst's sister, Gneisenau; the so-called "pocket battleship" Admiral Scheer; the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Admiral Hipper-all these have been damaged repeatedly by bombs and torpedoes, are of dubious fighting value. The pocket battleship Lutzow was torpedoed in 1941, but may be fit for service again. Despite the catchy description, she is no battleship, but an armored cruiser of around 12,000 tons. For the rest, aside from...