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Skagerrak to Scapa Flow. Erich Raeder was a young officer, and not a very promising one, when he was assigned in 1910 to his first important post: navigating officer of the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern. It was a job that might have broken the spirit of an already proved officer. To the unproved Raeder, who had spent 16 years in such jobs as writing thoughtful screeds for the German naval journal, Marine Rundschau, it was a job that led on to destiny...
...mutinied. The fleet did not go out. To Raeder's grooved, naval mind, the realization that his idol had a Communist brain and no muscle was the final, hardening blow. On the June afternoon when a faithful few scuttled 74 ships of the German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow, he dedicated himself again...
Britain, at Scapa Flow, and the U.S. and Britain, in Iceland, have naval bases on the fringes of the battle area. In Norway on the Atlantic, at Kiel and Helgoland on the North Sea approaches, the Nazis have a great advantage: an inner line of both naval and air bases to protect German supply routes and to launch attacks on the outer Allied routes. The Germans also have enough naval power at hand to give the Allies serious contest: the mighty Tirpitz, which apparently escaped unharmed from a recent torpedo-plane attack; the smaller Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, several cruisers...
...racing, waives the stud fee for poor owners of mares with fine strains. Through 1941 he has sired 335 registered foals. His get had won 1,069 races for $2,970,428. Some of his more brilliant offspring: American Flag, Crusader, War Admiral, Mars, Clyde Van Dusen, Bateau, Scapa Flow, War Glory, Genie and Battleship. Big Red was the famed Seabiscuit's grandpa. Though his weight is up a little and his back has sagged a trifle, he still has plenty of life in him: this year he will take care of from ten to a dozen mares...
...banty, called "little hothead" by his friends, he won the awed admiration of enemy sea fighters as well as his own countrymen by a daring and ingenuity that sank a claimed 235,941 tons of shipping. After his submarine torpedoed H.M.S. Royal Oak inside the heavily mined harbor at Scapa Flow in October 1939, the British Admiralty paid tribute to his "remarkable skill and daring...