Word: upping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dawn: Dark enough to strike without giving too much away, light enough to set the victim up in silhouette. It was to be a simple operation. All the Admiral Graf Spec had to do was warn the plodding French freighter not to send out radio alarms, take off her jittery...
Three cruisers to fight. She should be able to wallop them. The two light cruisers carried 6-inchers-too light to pierce the Spee'?, heavy armor, but plenty big enough to do damage far forward and aft, where the skin was thin, and in parts of the superstructure. And...
Captain Langsdorff called up the 62 captives, and as he set them free (under parole not to give away naval secrets), said to them: "The cruisers made a gallant fight. When people fight like that, personal enmity is lost."
Outside the mouth of the Rio de la Plata where it spews its yellow silt, the Ajax and Achilles waited exultantly for the deadline. Reinforcements came up fast. The much-disputed aircraft carrier Ark Royal and the battle cruiser Renown put in at
As the zero hour approached, Monte-videans rushed down to the harbor to watch. Correspondents got up on a hotel roof. An NBC radio broadcaster set up his equipment on the dock (see p. 50).