Word: raider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening of March 7, 1941, Count von Luckner, the old sea raider, had dinner at my home and during the course of the evening I showed him the story that you wrote about him in your Jan. 13 issue. The old Count was a little amused and puzzled too. Finally, he took his pen and wrote the following over the page...
...raider has prepared for his World War II job by having trained himself as a "heart raider" on his world cruise. I also had a hell of a time getting through the British blockade as a fisherman. I am proud of being an honorary citizen of San Francisco. (Signed) Felix Count Luckner, Berlin...
...When the Jervis Bay, an unarmored merchant cruiser, went down after a heroic and hopeless engagement with a big German surface raider (TIME, Nov. 25), no picture was available in the U.S. of gallant Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegan, who, with one arm shot away, stayed on the sinking wreck after ordering survivors to abandon ship. In response to Reader Hackett's inquiry, TIME gladly prints the best likeness of brave Fegan now obtainable...
...Only Argentina and Chile delayed action, but in Argentina, where there are 16 Axis ships, a bill ordering their confiscation was before the Chamber of Deputies. The Chilean Navy started hunting for a launch that was reported refueling a German raider somewhere near the Strait of Magellan...
...Merchant Marine's red ensign, but plying alone, unconvoyed, unidentified. Leander ordered her to halt. The lone ship's answer was to pull down the "red duster," hoist Italian colors, and blaze a broadside from 4.7-inch guns mounted on forecastle and poop. She was an Italian raider. Leander, with crushing superiority in speed and fire power, closed in and destroyed her "promptly." She was identified as Ramb I, 3,667-ton freighter with a cruiser stern, built in 1937 for the Italian Government's banana monopoly...