Word: scatteration
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Lutzow-was indeed among them, the havoc could only be like that of a wolf in a hen roost. For the raider, armored against the merchantmen's light weapons, would have 11-inch guns, aircraft, torpedo tubes and surpassing speed of 26 knots. Unless they could scatter and escape in bad weather or darkness, the entire convoy could be blasted in their huddle, and, if necessary, run down and sunk...
...another full-dress performance like Jutland, they reckoned without Hitler's strategy. He had no hope of winning in a concentrated battle between capital ships. His plan was so far as possible to avoid battle at sea, to divide his fleet into a number of small squadrons and scatter them as protection for numerous parties at strategic points along 1,200 miles of Norwegian seacoast...
...tells, and where it told last week in the newest sector of fighting, is on an extended front, along which heavy Russian forces can strike, one dawn at one point, the next 50 miles to the west, now here, now there, unexpectedly. Along such a front the Finns must scatter thinly, and be continually vigilant. The new sector: the northwest shore of Viipuri Bay and along the Gulf of Finland, on a front of 60 miles -halfway to Helsinki. Across the ice of the bay a great Russian sickle swept again & again. It hit some stumps and some stones...