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...wave after wave - sometimes 16 waves in quick succession - the Nazis went for the ports. This week they claimed that dive-bombers had sunk 30,000 tons of British transports in Peiraeus. They went for freight trains hauling heavy tanks, heavy trucks with enormous anti aircraft trailers, radio cars, searchlight trailers, troop-carrying busses. They went, carelessly, for hospital units. They went, in blissful ignorance, for lorries carrying the harmless stuff which could only be going to a British force in the midst of a desperate stand: tins of Australian beef, cases of toothpicks, cartons of boot polish...
...destroyer Greyhound (1,335 tons, 4-7-in. guns) flicked on a searchlight. By great good luck the glare squarely silhouetted the third ship in the Italian line, the cruiser Fiume (10,000 tons, 8-inchers).- At this exceedingly close range, Warspite, whose heavy batteries had been brought to readiness, spoke up with a broadside of 15-inchers. The whole broadside found its mark. The Fiume burst into flames from foremast funnel to sternpost. The after turret flopped right into the sea. Warspite let her have another broadside. Fiume was now afire and hopelessly crippled...
...lucky searchlight hit similarly caught the British armored cruiser Black Prince unawares at Jutland, the last big night engagement, and she blew up. * This week the R.A.F. announced that bomber pilots had found the Atlantic raiders Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in Brest, had dropped bombs all around them...
...until two-thirds of her 58-man crew had been killed. The Komata took eight German shells amidships, which killed the chief officer and wounded the captain, when her radio operator defied orders to close down his wireless. The Rangitane was trapped by the raider's searchlight, sank flaming, with the loss of 13 crew members, six men and seven women out of 100 passengers...
Toward the dark hulk of the waiting submarine the Washington kept her own signaling searchlight flashing ceaselessly: "American ship! American ship...