Allan Hunter.
This article reports that in the gray pre-dawn light of July 25, 1941, six Bristol Beauforts of 217 Squadron, Coastal Command, warmed up on the airfield at RAF St. Eval in Cornwall. At 38,400 tons full load the Scharnhorst was at that time one of the largest and most heavily armed warships in the Ge...
| Published in: | WLA (1949-9752) Vol. 16; no. 1/2; pp. 1 - 35 |
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US Air Force Academy English Department
2004
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