Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times its size. By keeping the British Home Fleet always on the alert in home waters, and by putting its offensive emphasis on submarines, it almost won the Battle of the Atlantic, contributed largely to German and Italian dominance of the Mediterranean in 1939-42. But, tactically, German Admirals Raeder and Doenitz have lost some great ships (Graf Spee, Bismarck, Blucher, etc.) in questionable actions...
...people to their second disastrous alliance with Germany, proceeded the titular and real rulers of Bulgaria: the boy King Simeon II, the royal family, the Cabinet of Germanophile Premier Bogdan Filoff and, not least, the representatives of Adolf Hitler-portly Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, stern Fleet Admiral Erich Raeder...
...Weapon. Grand Admiral Doenitz had not been CINC for long. Only three months ago he replaced Erich Raeder as the head of Hitler's Navy, and the shift in command was a tip-off on the Nazis' future strategy. For Karl Doenitz was a submariner from away back. A submariner he remained, in personal command of the U-boat fleet...
...last week served notice that his submarine campaign is the most dangerous weapon in Germany's armory of defense, and that to beat it the U.S. and Britain must bring their best might & brains to bear. Into the supreme command of the German Navy, succeeding famed old Erich Raeder, moved thin-lipped Admiral Karl Doenitz, whom the Germans call the greatest submarine genius of history...
...gangrene. Several died. Squalls nearly swamped the rest, but the rain was welcome. On the 26th day they saw a moth and two butterflies. Five days later 15 haggard men stumbled ashore, the only known survivors of the anonymous U.S. merchantman which had destroyed one of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder's deadly raiders...