Early in World War II, Nazi Germany used its navy to isolate Britain from resupply by sea. Germany capital ships, like the battleship Bismarck, were an important part of that strategy. But it was ...
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1,600 Shells, 6 Hours: The Day Bismarck Faced Her Executioners
May 27th, 1941. At dawn, the pride of Nazi Germany, the battleship Bismarck, was cornered by the British fleet. After ...
The larger context of the battle—the U.S. Navy being forced to take on the German Navy—would have had serious repercussions for the Pacific theater. Germany was, after all, considered the primary ...
Before long, the Japanese begin to reply with their 18.1” guns. Both the Germans and the Japanese have excellent fire control, but the contest is unequal. The fifteen-inch guns of Bismarck and Tirpitz ...
Historical analogies are always dangerous and incomplete, but as long as we remember their limitations, sometimes analogies are useful in trying to understand current developments. An obvious question ...
TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
The heirs of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s legendary “Iron Chancellor”, are embroiled in a bitter courtroom battle over a fortune as grand as their family name. Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, the so-called ...
Historical analogies are always dangerous and incomplete, but as long as we remember their limitations, sometimes analogies are useful in trying to understand current developments. An obvious question ...
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