Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Student Operator, 9th Squadron Radio Section...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet the Earl David Beatty, Viscount Borodale of Wexford and Baron Beatty of the North Sea and of Brocksby, 65, commander of the British battle cruiser squadron at the controversial Battle of Jutland; of a severe cold aggravated by marching in a drizzle at King George V's funeral; in London...
...preliminary squadron of nine German battle planes had come thundering from the direction of Berlin to wheel around the spires of Cologne Cathedral and then melt away again into the blue of the East. Not a word would any Rhineland official say to confirm the report that German soldiers were really coming, but since 5 a. m. grapevine rumor had been spreading through Cologne, making blue German eyes sparkle and apple cheeks flush brighter...
...total population of 2,437 and lie obscurely some 300 miles east of Cape Horn. Discovered by Britons, they were seized in succession by the French and Spanish. In 1914 the Falklands won their first real fame when off their shores British Admiral Sturdee destroyed the daring German raider squadron of Admiral von Spee...
...ship through without a single casualty. Before the war was over he had been promoted to Rear Admiral. When Japan was ready for the Russo-Japanese War, so were Togo and his fleet. Once again his guns spread the death-shade declaration, in a night attack on a squadron of the Russian fleet, sleeping at anchor off Port Arthur. After the first on-set Togo never let up; he raided them, hammered them by indirect fire when they hid in the harbor, finally exasperated them into a dash for Vladivostok. Then, in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, Togo gave...