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...68th day Widdicombe, too, grew weaker and nearly lost consciousness. He could hardly see. Then a lone sea gull flew close to the boat. There were other signs that they were near land. Next dawn an island was visible...
Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
...first hints of dawn, new waves of transport planes came in with more parachutists. This time the planes towed gliders, both aqua-gliders and land-skidders, in trains of from two to four apiece. The gliders cast off from their towing planes and swept down in the dim light, mostly in the Candia and Rethymno sectors. The aqua-gliders had outboard motors which propelled them to prearranged landings. When glidatroops disembarked they pointed their gliders toward objectives and rendezvous as indicators for later airborne forces...
...dawn next day, the British dropped Arabic proclamations asking the Iraqi to surrender at once-or else. After a few minutes the British applied the or else. It consisted of a severe bombing assault, a hail of artillery, and three ground attacks-one straight across the bridge, one which crossed the river farther up, and an airborne assault which landed in the desert behind the Iraqi, cutting off their retreat to Bagdad. By week's end, with the help of Curtiss P-40 Tomahawks (fighters) and Martin 1675 (bombers), the British had the situation well enough in hand...
...that the pilot can concentrate on navigation, the gunner on spotting and shooting; twin-engined so that they would not be blinded by propeller reflection or by fiery exhausts right in front of their eyes; and with capacious fuel tanks so that the planes can stay up until dawn and not have to land in the risky light of sputtering flares...