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Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery crew, shell her or set some TNT below, and give her a one-way ticket to Davy Jones. Then get away...
...went the four, zigzagging, varying speed, roaring steel at each other. The cruisers kept dashing in from all angles like hounds baiting a boar. In Spec's guts, the 62 British seamen-the youngest was 15, the oldest 72, every sort from captain to cabin boy-hollered their happy heads off every time they felt the Spec take...
...Spec's sister Admiral Scheer and German Submarines were also rumored on their...
...other two were supposedly in German waters last week: the Deutschland had been bombed by Loyalist Spanish airmen off Iviza, Balearic Islands, the Admiral Graf Spec by the British in their raid on the Wilhelmshaven base...
Four of the eleven are entered in the high hurdles, Mason Fernald '40, Sherman Hoar '40, Donald Donahue '41, and Roger Schafer '41. The Sophomore and Freshman hurdlers are up against the country's strongest competition, with record holders Sam Allen, "Spec" Towns, Jack Donovan, and Bill Watson running...