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The major tactical effect will become apparent only when at least three of the new battle wagons are in service. The 15 battleships now in commission are slow (18-21 knots), depend mainly on heavy armor and crushing fire power. Rated at 27 knots, the North Carolina can probably do...
This maneuver brought the line on opposite course to the enemy ships, so that the two lines were about to pass in contrary directions along each other's full length. The enemy vessels were unusually close. So close that star shells were apparently not even necessary.
Last week, far to the north, the British did it again-this time, on a slightly bigger scale. In foggy weather naval units attacked the port of Svolvoer, in the Lofoten Islands, off Narvik, Norway, and then withdrew. "No military importance whatever," the Germans said; "a propaganda maneuver ... a mere...
After 17 months of safe operation, U. S. airlines had had their sixth crash-the fifth fatal accident in six months. (It was Eastern's second in eleven years of crack operation.) In that time death on airliners had taken 54 men & women. To Atlanta hurried CAB's...
Two Months of Caution. On the morning of Dec. 7,1940, the military correspondent of a German newspaper wrote: "Neither of the parties can carry out a surprise attack in the western desert because of natural obstacles in the desert and because preparation of mechanized forces for a big offensive...