That was the game plan for Operation Rheinübung, which began on May 18, 1941. The Bismarck battleship ... Following the sinking of Bismarck, the Germans never again used their surface warships ...

HMS King George V, the most advanced British battleship of World War II, was initially held in reserve to avoid submarine threats during Germany’s aggressive commerce raiding. The sinking of HMS Hood ...

The Mighty Hood was sunk in 1941 by the German battleship ... causing the ship to sink. It sparked a huge Royal Navy pursuit of the Bismarck, which was destroyed three days later.

the Royal Navy’s hunt for the Bismarck in May of 1941. While the story has been told before, perhaps most notably by C.S. Foster, who’s book was turned into the fairly good 1960 film Sink the Bismarck ...

Barnsely, So. Yorks: Pen & Sword/Havertown, Pa.: Casemate, 2010. Pp. vi, 170. Illus., maps, diagr., appends., index. $32.95. ISBN: 1848842503 Albeit unfortunately ...