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The German flotilla included five destroyers of the Narvik class, mounting five 5.9-inch guns, and six of the smaller Elbing class, with four 4.1-inchers. As a force they outweighed the British but they showed little stomach for battle. After a running fight, in which the cruisers scored several...
Next morning the huntress was near her best stalking ground. That afternoon she made her strike and closed, somewhere above the Nordkapp (North Cape), on the uppermost tip of Norway. But she found a battle, not a slaughter. The convoy she fell in with was under escort of strong forces...
An expectant mother, her legs and thighs crushed, moaned in the darkness: "I won't lose my baby. I won't lose my baby. God help me, I won't." A doctor rushed to her side, gave her a sedative, told her her baby would be born...
He was a lieutenant commander when the fleet sallied out to take the Gilberts last month. Butch O'Hare "hellcatted" the island; he was the first to bring a carrier plane down on conquered Tarawa. A few nights later, off the Marshalls, Jap torpedo planes came over his flat...
High-ranking among 1943's novels, less by its own accomplishment than because of the mixed quality of the year's fiction, was Arthur Koestler's Arrival and Departure ($2). By no means equal to his Darkness At Noon, Koestler's latest novel was a graphic...