Word: commandant
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...return for new bases and command of the Caribbean (see p. 18), the Navy could well afford to let the ships go. Even so, the traded destroyers were no useless hulks. They were indeed "World War destroyers," in the sense that they were designed during World War I. But most of them were completed after the war, and some did not technically become over age (16 years old) until 1938. Small (314 ft., 1,190 tons), lightly gunned, fast (35 knots), they were designed for the use to which the British presumably will put them: long-range convoy and patrol...
...Battle of Britain's fourth active week was the institution of regular night raids on the two warring capitals, London and Berlin. The British had expected this. The Germans had not. Sharp was the surprise of Berliners, who had been told for a year by their High Command that no enemy attack would ever reach their midst, to hear bombs exploding and see fires raging within a few blocks of the Wilhelmstrasse...
...through apartment buildings, workers' houses, mostly again in the southeastern quarters where lie huge Tempelhof Airport and some of Berlin's main food, fuel, raw-material supply lines. As in London, subway service was disrupted. Berlin learned about sleepless nights and haggard mornings-after-and the High Command had some tall explaining...
...were painted with a wonderful thick black varnish that made them "invisible": gunners could only shoot at their shadows on the clouds. This was the rankest rot. Most night bombers, German included, are given a coat of flat black on their under surfaces. And righteous though the German High Command's rage was at the Britons' "murderous" attacks on Berlin, they knew the enemy was aiming for military targets just as earnestly if not more so than Nazi pilots were over Britain. From many a long week's experience elsewhere in Germany they knew, too, that...
...more in Tokyo, and the Premiership (or at least the powerful military shadow behind it) might become permanent-hereditary, like the Shogunate and like the Throne. The only man who ever dared say no point-blank to Emperor Hirohito happens to be Fumimaro Konoye. He refused the Imperial Command to form a Cabinet...