Word: throughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The old man [Captain Ahrens] brought us through, and no matter what you might say about a Nazi captain, he, together with all these clever boys, outwitted the British Navy."
This week it came-a small push along a four-mile front, but the first attack in force the Germans have made. It came along the northern flank through the Moselle Valley-an offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were...
Sept 17, 1939, was another dark day for British sea power. Surprisingly lost that day was the aircraft carrier Courageous. Last week an even more astonishing disaster occurred. The Admiralty sent an electric thrill of horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship...
Last week the 51,731-ton luxury liner Bremen, missing for six weeks, was discovered in the place where she had been most generally believed to be hiding-Murmansk. The pride of the German merchant marine* had been sitting in Russia's only ice-free Arctic port for a...
Coldly calculating on war losses up to 100% a month (the British calculate a maximum of 30%) by 1939 Germany was turning out planes at the rate of 1,000 per month, claiming capacity for between 3,000 and 4,000. And the planes they were, building were such sweet...