As part of the Norwegian Campaign in 1940, the Germans launched Operation Juno. It saw German forces embarking into the ...

Aboard the British aircraft carrier hms Glorious, Captain Guy D’Oyly-Hughes surveys the horizon as the ship steams southward, flanked by the destroyers hms Ardent and hms Acasta. The waters are calm, ...

The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep (and replace) pre-dreadnought ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway where it operated as part of a “fleet in being” with Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz (the ...

This story is submitted to the People’s War site by a member of Market Harborough Branch, Royal British Legion on behalf of Bill Cotton and has been added to the site with his permission. Mr Cotton ...

Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector ...

This story was submitted to the People's War site by Marie on behalf of Sqn. Ldr. George Glenn and has been added to the site with his permission. Sqn. Ldr. Glenn fully understands the site's terms ...

The German battleship Bismarck after its completion but before it received its camouflage paint. Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to ...