Word: strasbourg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasing to the Coastal Command of the R.A.F., for previously all the spectacular British torpedo-bombing had been done by the Fleet Air Arm with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane Bristol Beauforts, clean as whistles...
...attempt to invade England and the Italian reverses in Greece and Libya mark the turning point of the war." Free Frenchman General Charles de Gaulle: "With the Hun in Paris, Bordeaux. Lille, Reims and Strasbourg, and with the Italians pretending to dictate their will to the French nation, there is nothing else to do but fight. ... To treat with the enemies, to accept their control, to cooperate with them, is to betray the fatherland...
...voices one finds among the members of a fine string-quartet, and you will not tire of the chamber flavor as you might the brilliance of a larger chorus. Also in the line of vocal music are the ancient French carols sung on a single Columbia Record by the Strasbourg Cathedral Choir, music more of the folk quality than the Bach chorales, but of a similar fresh spirit, in its own way just as delightful. The much larger choir of the cathedral gives a-clear, pleasantly echoey rendition, not one, however, to compare with that of the Trapps...
...right). The French ships, still at anchor when the bombardment began, were lined up for the slaughter. Those with steam up, hastily got under way. Taken from the upper works of a tall ship (probably the Dunkerque) the picture (lower right) shows the 26,500-ton battle cruiser Strasbourg, whose stern is visible beyond the bridge of the Provence (in the foreground), starting to pull out. Beyond her, the sister ship of the Provence, the 22,189-ton battleship Bretagne has already been hit by a salvo. A few moments later (upper left) the Strasbourg has got away, and over...
...time night fell, British marksmanship had done a deadly job. Besides the Bretagne, by British accounts, the Provence and two destroyers were sunk by mines and gunfire as they attempted to get away. The Strasbourg, muffled in smoke screens laid down around her, limped out to sea damaged by a torpedo, accompanied by five cruisers and several destroyers. Next day British bombers came over, sank the Teste and damaged the Dunkerque which was beached...