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Sinking the Bismarck: The Legendary Battleship’s Final Hours in 1941

In the black veil of dawn on May 19, 1941, the giant Bismarck, a battleship of unheard-of strength, glided into the Baltic ...
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Battleship Bismarck’s Final 72 Hours - The Royal Navy’s Relentless Pursuit - Animated

Following the sinking of hms Hood in May 1941, the Royal Navy launched one of the largest naval hunts in history. The German ...
The National Interest

Last Battle of the Bismarck: How Britain’s Navy Took Down Germany’s Mightiest Battleship

On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck was on a roll. The largest and most powerful ship in the German Navy, the mighty Bismarck had broken out into the Atlantic Ocean, sunk a Royal Navy ...
Time

World War: AT SEA: End of the Bismarck

For three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain’s largest warship, the 42,100-ton ...
Reuters

Lost sailors haunt pilot who helped sink "Bismarck"

BLAINSLIE, Scotland (Reuters Life!) - John Moffat's sparkling eyes grow dim when he remembers the 2,000 sailors swallowed up by the Atlantic after his torpedo bombers consigned the German battleship ...
The Aviationist

The Fairey Swordfish: an Unsung Hero of the Hunt for the Battleship Bismarck

Looking like a holdover from the First World War, this flimsy, antiquated, and slow biplane was all Great Britain had to throw against the mighty German Battleship in one of the greatest sea chases of ...