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Britain's loss of the Glorious by gunfire (in battle with Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) seemed also the result of bad handling, under the Collett doctrine. He found that only "extremely bad weather" or a lucky break could enable a battleship or cruiser to close with a carrier...
...home lesson No. 1 when tinny little Japanese amphibian tanks snort toward Singapore through the Malayan rice paddies which Allied generals had pronounced impassable. Field Marshal Rommel and his mighty Mark IVs teach lesson No. 2 by blazing away through the Libyan sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
...Germany is known to have three battleships, possibly a fourth, and two pocket battleships in commission. This week London announced whereabouts of four Nazi capital ships: at Trondheim, Norway, the 35,000-ton Tirpitz and pocket battleship Admiral Scheer; at Kiel the Scharnhorst, at Gdynia the Gneisenau, both out of action for repairs. Unaccounted for by the British is the 10,000-ton Lutzow, possibly Russia's Baltic victim. Or the Russians hit and misidentified one of the ex-battleships, now training ships Schleswig-Holstein and Schlesien...
When Government-Spokesman Lord Snell charged Lord Portsea with "exaggerating" conditions on the Channel Islands, the Baron rose again. Said he, in his quavering voice, the Islands should never have been abandoned in the first place. "If we had held out," he cried, "the Scharnhorst and her friends could not have slunk up the Channel. . . . They say there is no hope. . . of food being sent. We can only send bombs. . . . If I could find a teller, I would divide now. Will any noble Lord tell with me against the Government...
Like the Eugen, the 26,000-ton battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, known to Britons as S & G, had been continuously plastered in French ports. With the badgered Eugen, they had finally come out of their pit, had dashed through England's own Channel in February, dealing worse wounds to British pride than the damage they took themselves. Now the Gneisenau lay in Kiel. She seemed to have been hurt, as she had also seemed at Brest. But now she was in German home waters. So was the Scharnhorst...