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Fire! The Top 5 Battleships of All Time, Ranked
In WWII, no warship gave the potent British Royal Navy headaches like the German Kriegsmarine battleship, Bismarck, did. It was the pride of Hitler’s (relatively small) fleet. This boat skipped ...
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Last Battle of the Bismarck: How Britain’s Navy Took Down Germany’s Mightiest Battleship
The German battleship Bismarck was the pride of the Kriegsmarine, Nazi Germany’s naval service. Construction began in 1936, ...
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See inside a WWII-era U-boat, the only submarine that the US Navy captured intact and towed home
Given the Kriegsmarine's limited surface fleet, the U-boat was tasked with destroying shipping vessels in the Atlantic owned by the US and other Allied nations. After the U-505 entered the Battle of ...
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Germany Navy
The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most... Key point: London’s excellent use of radar gave them a decisive ...