Word: scheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen action against every team except Exeter when a sprained ankle kept him out of action. McCoy says that he has shown steady improvement, and Forster should give the regulars a real battle for a starting position in the future. Other promising reserves are Smart, Rudman, Moyer, Post, and Scheer...
...British claimed they had confirmation last week that the battleship Gneisenau had been bombed and definitely crippled as it lay in the harbor of Brest. That left Germany just two battleships (Tirpitz and Scharnhorst} and one pocket battleship (Lutzow or Admiral Scheer) in operation...
...British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...
...hunters were patient, powerful units of the Royal Navy, equipped with aircraft which soared ceaselessly like gulls of vengeance far up the shores of Greenland and Iceland, high over the crinkled fjords of farthest Norway. They hunted a killer-the German surface raider, probably the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer or Lützow, which last fortnight fell upon a big British convoy in Lat. 52°N., Long. 32°W., halfway between Newfoundland and Eire (TIME...
...Tirpitz, famed for his bifurcated beard, whose active service extended to 1916. The brief German naval tradition is of daring, offensive, individual action, of surface and submarine raiders ranging far & wide through two world wars. It is of one great battle-Jutland-and of studious, hard-faced Vice Admiral Scheer directing the fleet against Jellicoe and Beatty from the bridge of the Friedrich der Grosse. It is of one afternoon in Scapa Flow when the entire German Navy went down, scuttled, to save it from surrender. It is of baton-toting grand Admiral Erich Raeder with a new Nazi Fleet...