The Bismarck, the pride of the Kriegsmarine and named after Germany’s unifier Otto von Bismarck, was designed to dominate the seas with its 50,000-ton frame and deadly 15-inch guns. At the start of ...

Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, a compromise achieved by sacrificing armor protection. -This “speed is ...

The USS Bismarck Sea was the last American carrier ever sunk in battle. The year was 1945. Today, eighty years later, losing a carrier would be difficult for most Americans to fathom.

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During this last engagement, 2,876 shells were fired at the Bismarck. Bruno and about 800 other sailors dove into the sea, where the waves were 30 feet high and the temperature 50 degrees.

A new book by Montel Williams and David Fisher looks at a little known chapter in the history of the USS Intrepid. In 1981, he was deployed as a special duty intelligence officer on the USS Kitty ...

The last U.S. aircraft carrier that was sunk during battle was the USS Bismarck Sea (CVE-95), which was used as an escort carrier capable of holding 27 aircraft.

The Bismarck class had eight fifteen-inch guns, each capable of hurling an armor piercing, capped round up to 21.75 miles.The 1,764-pound killer shell traveled at 2,960 feet per second out the ...