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...After some time of this their support in the form of a Littorio Class battleship appeared to starboard, steaming at high speed toward us. We turned away and increased speed, and she opened fire at a range of about 30,000 yards before we had completed our turn. We were left in no doubt as to which ship was their target...
...machine guns spurted bright tracer bullets; from the turret, the shells from a 37 mm. cannon cracked into the faraway pines. Ordnance men from far & wide saw what they had come mainly to see: the steady (22 to the minute) fire of the 75-mm. gun mounted on the starboard side of M3's hull...
...vessels had tightened to a line of battle. At 10:20 a number of darkened ships loomed up on their starboard bow. Simultaneously they were challenged by an enemy vessel on the port beam. Admiral Cunningham decided to sheer away from the lone vessel and engage the others. He ordered all ships 90° to starboard...
Late in the week, Berlin announced that dive bombers had come upon a British convoy west of Crete, and in the ensuing attack had scored "severe bomb hits of heavy and medium caliber" on the stern of one battleship, forward and starboard on another battleship, and also on a heavy cruiser...
...three and peeled off downward in screaming, vertical dives. Just as the British planes left the deck, the first Stuka dived through the crashing anti-aircraft fire, let go and flattened out. In a searing flash, a 1,000-pounder blew a hole in the flight deck to starboard, smashing planes about to take off in the next flight, causing heavy casualties among the mechanics servicing them. Another tore through the side plate, another plunged close by into the sea, its bursting fragments spattering the crew of one pompom...