Remarkable legend of the sinking of the Bismarck in new eBook
John Moffat: Legend of the Bismarck is the latest release in the British Flying Legends series and tells the remarkable story of a Fleet Air Arm flying legend who, with a single torpedo strike,...
View ArticleHMS Hood attacking the Bismarck, Battle of the Denmark Strait
HMS Hood pictured from HMS Prince of Wales as they engaged the German battleship Bismarck and the battlecruiser Prinz Eugen during the Battle of the Denmark Strait on 24 May 1941. Seven minutes later...
View ArticleAdmiral Gunter Lutjens and the Sinking of the Bismarck
On 18 May 1941, the Kriegsmarine, under the direct order of Grand Admiral, Erich Raeder, put into effect Operation Rheinübung. The objective of the operation was for the German battleship Bismarck and...
View ArticleHMS Dorsetshire’s controversial rescue of Bismarck survivors 27 May 1941
The Bismarck’s crew was made up of just over two thousand men. Following her sinking, only 114 survivors were plucked from the sea, 110 of them by HMS Dorsetshire and the Tribal-class destroyer HMS...
View ArticleFriedrich Guggenberger: The Man Who Sank the Ark Royal
On 13 November 1941, at 3.40pm, Friedrich Guggenberger, commander of the German submarine U-81, fired a single torpedo that brought to an end the short, but dramatic, wartime career of HMS Ark Royal,...
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