Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazi epic came out of Berlin last week about the freighter Erlangen, which fled Australian waters towards Chile when war started. Short of fuel, she stopped at an uninhabited South Sea island for a month, while her crew hewed and loaded firewood, made sails out of hatch covers and tarpaulins. Alternately sailing (1,507 miles) and steaming (3,319 miles), she made Chile in five weeks (normal: two weeks), after burning most of her furniture and cabin floors...
...Lieut. Commander Edward Oscar ("Brubs") Bickford, 29, of the British submarine Salmon, who let the Bremen pass when he allegedly had her lined up for torpedoing, was last week awarded the D.S.O. and jumped 800 numbers to full Commander, for sinking a U-boat, puncturing a Nazi cruiser (perhaps...
...Adolf Hitler change the Admiral Graf Spee from a gallant fighting ship into a miserable scuttleship? Naval men pondered many theories last week, as the Spee's semi-submerged hulk still smoked in the Plata estuary and her 1,039 officers & men were interned at Buenos Aires and Montevideo, four of them under arrest in the latter capital, pending an investigation to see if the Spee's scuttling was criminal...
...only his own letters could reveal whether Hans Langsdorff understood and honored the end which Adolf Hitler decreed for his ship, and thus for him. And last Week those letters were not made public...
...recognition of fishermen's and trawlers' services to the nation (and in part confirmation of Germany's contention that they are combatants), George VI last week reviewed a contingent of them, salt-caked in their sea boots and ragged overcoats, on the docks at Devonport Torpedo School. He bestowed no medals because, said the Admiralty: "You'd have to give medals to nearly every one of them-and what do they want with medals anyway?" The King boarded a trawler, dirtied his gloves fingering depth-charge apparatus and trawling gear. Later he helped receive a delegation...