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"At about eight o'clock smoke was sighted, and in due course three Italian cruisers and some destroyers were made out. Two, if not all three of these, were 8-in. gun cruisers, and our game was if possible to lure them, together with their supporting force, on to...
"When the smoke from the rest of the squadron covered us, the enemy shifted his fire to the Gloucester which was the weather ship, and she had an uncomfortable time but was not hit. The destroyers tried to get across to cover her with smoke, but at the speed we...
Last week some changes were announced. Most important change had to do with the use and tactics of the two armored divisions now in being, two more to be organized this month. When the Armored Force was founded last summer, its commanders were left to evolve their own doctrines. Trouble...
Nobody had been killed but everyone had been hurt. Shaken but lucid, 76-year-old Dr. George Crile, famed Cleveland surgeon, was pinned in his seat, but gave advice to his fellow townsman, Dr. Daniel P. Quiring, in first-aid work. Except for Captain Gerald O'Brien, the first...
Just after 9 o'clock a dark shadow was sighted; an unidentified vessel hove to. She was probably Vittorio Veneto. Sir Andrew grunted a terse order: "Close position."