Word: scharnhorst
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adversity and gave the Corps its Prussian base. Napoleon and his defeat of the Prussians at Jena gave the G.S.C. its first great strategic concepts-the wielding of massive armies and the conscription needed to provide the uniformed mass. Two non-Prussians, calm, scholarly General Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst, a Hanoverian, and impetuous, dashing August Wilhelm Anton von Gneisenau, coalesced these concepts. Scharnhorst founded the War Academy, from which Staff officers were chosen, and Gneisenau, as chief of staff of the Prussian army, put the new ideas to work. In Bismarck's time, non-Prussian Helmuth Karl...
They gathered in London weeks ago, there attended lectures which deglamorized life in Canada. They learned, for example, that ranch life can be and often is woefully drab. They had a rough voyage -some of them in ships that brought German survivors of the Scharnhorst sinking. The Dominion Government paid the fares. At East Coast ports the Red Cross gave advice, emergency money, layettes for newborn babies. Now the 200 English, Scottish and Irish brides and fiancées of Canadian soldiers have scattered across the Dominion to new homes...
Triumph Complete. News of the victory was an extra fillip to the British public, still savoring the destruction of the Scharnhorst. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser reported that his victory north of Norway was due in large part to the daring attack and pursuit of the German ship by cruisers and destroyers, which slowed the Scharnhorst and brought her to bay under the 14-inch guns of his flagship, Duke of York...
...darkness of Arctic winter, the cruisers Belfast, Norfolk and Sheffield had first sighted the Scharnhorst steering for a Russia-bound convoy. They attacked at once. After two engagements, in which both sides scored hits, the Scharnhorst fled southward only to be intercepted by the Duke of York and a task force somewhere above the North Cape. Hits by the British battleship gave the destroyers a chance to slip in for a torpedo attack, after which the Duke of York pounded the Scharnhorst to a helpless hulk, and a final torpedo attack by the cruiser Jamaica, the Belfast and four destroyers...
Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain's home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow's Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn Scharnhorst sailor disappearing into the sea. In the foreground frenetic Propaganda Minister Goebbels shouts into a microphone: "Germans, we won a great victory. The German underseas fleet has increased in one stroke by 26,000 tons...