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...busy in Norway. All ports from the North Cape down to Alesund were tightly sealed. Across the Skagerrak, by ship and plane, streamed reinforcements for Nazi garrisons. Strung out along the thawing fjords were almost 200,000 troops, double the number that guarded Norway last fall. The powerful battleship Tirpitz, which recently weathered a British torpedo-plane attack, lay under the sheltering guns of Trondheim Fjord. With her were the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Were the Nazis about to move against Britain's supply lines to Russia...
Worse than the humiliation was the new fear. Now the Germans could assemble a pretty formidable fleet-the battleship Tirpitz, the pocket battleships Lützow and Admiral Scheer, the aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin (and perhaps another, the Deutschland), the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, four heavy and perhaps eight light cruisers, about 25 destroyers. This was probably more than the British could quickly assemble at any one pressure point. Such a striking force could be used with overwhelming effect against convoys. It could sever British lines to Archangel and the Mediterranean. It might raid Iceland, as the U.S. Fleet...
...Bacon. At his desk in Kiel, hardworking Karl Doenitz can, by twisting his close-cropped head, ponder a wall portrait of prong-bearded old Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, World War I evangelist of unrestricted U-boat warfare. Inscribed on the portrait he could read the U-boat credo: Die Tat ist alles-The deed is all. In other words: the only thing that matters in U-boating is the bacon you bring home...
...spent six months in the navy yard getting her damage repaired. And now North Carolina was out to prove the hard way that she could take a slug many times heavier. Neither so fast nor so heavily protected as such new-day beauties as the 15-in.-gunned German Tirpitz and the unhappy Bismarck, she carries a more powerful wallop* than any foreign ship afloat...
...British claimed they had confirmation last week that the battleship Gneisenau had been bombed and definitely crippled as it lay in the harbor of Brest. That left Germany just two battleships (Tirpitz and Scharnhorst} and one pocket battleship (Lutzow or Admiral Scheer) in operation...