Word: specs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since Jutland, a German navy could look forward to operations on blue water, not as skulking submarine raiders, nor like the Graf Spec and Bismarck, running for their lives before the pursuing British, but as a force that could stand and fight, or leap to a kill. Now, once again, Germany had a fleet in being. That fleet was small, but it was well built, new and powerful. It was gathered in the north, where it could strike as a unit...
...Blenheim wirelessed its base. R.A.F. torpedo bombers roared out to sea. The pilots were taut-eyed, for this was a prize not to miss. The scuttling of the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec off Montevideo in December 1939, enforced by inferior British vessels, was one of Britain's proudest episodes in the war. There were only two more of these Panzer ships, as the Germans call their 10,000-tonners designed to outgun or overrun every British ship of their weight. This cornered ship must be either the Admiral Scheer or the Lützow (formerly Deutschland...
...Bailey Circus opened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. The Circus had changed to look as fabulously beautiful as they had imagined it had looked when they were children. The Brothers John and Henry Ringling North, their imaginations inspired by Designer Norman Bel Geddes, had enchanted the traditional "Spec," the great opening parade...
Pleased with the scare, the British gave a further nip to American adrenals by announcing that Germany's two powerful battle cruisers, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau (each 26,000 tons, each faster and better-armed than the late pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec), were indeed at large and as far west as the 42nd meridian. Displeased with the scare, the Axis press nevertheless aggravated it by jubilating at the alleged sinking of the first shipload of U. S. armaments bound for Britain under the Lend-Lease...
...honorable in British naval annals is the name Ajax* and how far back into history march those annals, was called to mind last week when sailors of the present light cruiser Ajax, co-heroine of the Graf Spec fight, hung a new name under their ship's battle-honor plaque-THE PLATE. Above this sign, which refers to the River Plate (La Plata) between Uruguay and Argentina, appear legends signalizing exploits of five of the eight Ajax ships that have served Great Britain down the history of her long maritime mastery...