Word: ups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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At 6:20, two hours and to spare before the deadline, Spee weighed. Slowly she started moving for the breakwater mouth. The evening was clear-sun at the set, half moon already up, lazy little clouds. The supply ship Tacoma, with all Spee's married men aboard, picked up...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later...
Down went three of the British bombers (according to the British) and five Messerschmitts, before the British ran for home in the growing darkness. Said the British formation leader: "The German planes burned for some time after hitting the water. . . . They looked like enormous beacons. . . . They not only lit up...
Five days later the Admiralty reported that the submarine Ursula had sneaked into the mouth of the Elbe, past six German destroyers, and sunk a 6,000-ton cruiser. Since such a ship would normally carry 571 men, this feat almost made up for the loss of Royal Oak, certainly...
So wrote Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News last week after interviewing a batch of prisoners brought in by the unconquered Finns. Correspondent Stowe found them "helpless, tragic wretches. . . . The Russians wore Army overcoats of a cheap, part-wool mixture and uniforms of quilted cotton. . . . None of the...