The tactic dated from an experimental Allied sortie in World War I.
During the fleet sortie on 18 19 August 1916, the I Scouting Group, which was the battlecruiser reconnaissance force of the High Seas Fleet and commanded by Admiral Franz von Hipper, was to bombard the coastal town of Sunderland in an attempt to draw out and destroy Beatty's battlecruisers.
As a former jackaroo, he was especially upset about one sortie that involved attacking cattle: "I felt horrible about it, being an ex bushy ... at about lunch time I went out and darned if I didn't have to turn butcher.
He quotes the commanding United States admiral calling attention to the drone of choppers off on another sortie, possibly ill informed: "How I love the sound of freedom in the air".
This is lesbian life painted so that straight people can understand it: the traumatic coming-out scenes at school, the nervous sortie into the provincial lesbian bar (I have travelled the dyke world, by the way, and this Sapphic Studio 54 only exists in a horny chick's dreams).
Graudenz again screened for the I Scouting Group for the sortie out to the Dogger Bank on 24 January 1915.
I've already shared the opening sortie – Turnbull telling the radio host he is not going to take dictation from him.
I join him on his latest sortie, along with a unit of Special Forces brought in to try and reach those survivors in remote areas, who remain out of reach.
