Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From denying their strategy, the Nazis turned to boasting about it, justifying it, instead of pretending the mines were British. They said their "objectives were being achieved." They said they were proving they could give ten shots for one. Some of their mines bore inscriptions, such as: WHEN THIS GOES...
In his week-end war speech to the Empire, Prime Minister Chamberlain declared: "Already we know the secret of the magnetic mine and we shall soon master it as we have already mastered the U-boat." But these words went out to the tune of more titanic explosions, under the...
To this gossip the Berlin radio retorted specifically, invited skeptics to telephone Willy Messerschmitt at his Augsburg home. One reporter who did so was Beach Conger, correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, whom the Nazis squeezed out of Berlin last fortnight because he would not retract a dispatch picturing...
As her position necessitated, Germany continued the more aggressive. Last fortnight one of her reconnaissance planes appeared for the first time over Britain's industrial Midlands, flying low and streaking away from anti-aircraft and pursuit after traversing Manchester (textiles), Merseyside (ship-building), and North Wales (coal). Last week...
Chapter 1: The Wireless Set. Late in October 1939, clever Gestapo agents, posing as discontented Germans, managed to make contact with certain naïve British intelligence officers in The Hague. The British got to like their "friendly opponents," and soon gave them a transmitting and receiving apparatus containing three...