Word: spee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Experts had written off the heavily armed, undersized "pocket battleship" after the Graf Spee was bagged by cruisers in 1939. Therefore there was considerable grousing in Washington last week when the high-domed United States Naval Institute Proceedings came out with an article advocating a 10,000-ton cruiser of the Brooklyn class which would be armed, not with the 11-in. guns of a Graf Spee, but with the 14-in. weapons of a full-fledged battleship...
Pratt & the Graf Spee. Military Expert Fletcher Pratt of New York City invented in 1929 and has since developed a Naval War Game which actually approximates sea war. One night in 1939 the players looked at each other and whistled. Three light ships had just sunk the German pocket battleship, the Admiral Graf Spee, a supposedly impossible feat. But their calculations showed it could be done-and they were not so much surprised as vindicated when the Graf Spee actually got her comeuppance in just that way six months later off Brazil...
Lieutenant Goodyear ... was graduated in 1938 from Harvard College, where he was a member of the Hasty Pudding Institute of 1770, the Spee Club, and Mike's Club...
...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...
...Trieste, heavy cruisers with 8-in. guns; three or four light, 6-in.-gun cruisers of the Condottieri class, and a destroyer screen. None of the British light cruisers could match the Trento or Trieste, much less the battleship. Admiral Vian invoked the tactics which dogged the Graf Spee to suicide in 1939. His light force laid down an intricate smokescreen, then peppered and confused the heavier enemy with darting attacks and withdrawals...