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Last Battle of the Bismarck: How Britain’s Navy Took Down Germany’s Mightiest Battleship
Hood broke in half and sank, taking 1,418 men with it. Bismarck, despite its stunning victory, had not emerged from the battle unscathed. Hit three times by Prince of Wales, it lost some of its ...
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How The Nazis’ ‘Invincible’ Bismarck Battleship Sunk Just Eight Days Into Its Maiden Mission
On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...
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World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Around the Bismarck Sea
“The Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril,” said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force ...