Bismarck Sinks: Germany's Mighty Battleship Lost at Sea
Royal Navy warships cornered and sank the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic, killing nearly 2,100 of her crew just three days after she had destroyed HMS Hood. The loss of Germany's most powerful surface warship convinced Hitler to abandon major surface operations in the Atlantic, shifting the naval war to U-boat submarine campaigns.
May 24, 1941
85 years ago
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