Word: scheer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norwegians in the confusion of the first attack. The British merely claimed that the Scharnhorst was damaged in an engagement with the Renown.) By omission, Admiral Raeder tacitly confirmed the loss of the Emden and four other light cruisers, the destruction of twelve destroyers, the torpedoing of the Admiral Scheer, the damaging of the Scharnhorst and loss of 30 transport vessels...
...they said their mines were of a new type against which there was no known defense. Used in these operations undoubtedly were plenty of France's big submarines which can lay 150 mines per trip. Somewhere along the line the British Spearfish took a crack at the Admiral Scheer, one of Germany's two remaining pocket-battleships, and believed her speared by two torpedoes...
...Norwegian fishermen reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...