In May 1941, the German Kriegsmarine launched Operation Rheinübung, a breakout into the Atlantic. The newly commissioned ...

Key Point: The sinking of the Bismarck was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to sink a stronger opponent. On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck was on a roll. The ...

Following the sinking of hms Hood in May 1941, the Royal Navy launched one of the largest naval hunts in history. The German ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The sinking of the Bismarck was an excellent example of combined arms at sea working together to sink a stronger opponent. On May 23, 1941, the Battleship Bismarck ...

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 ...

On this date in history: In 1703, Czar Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg as the new capital of Russia. In 1930, Richard Gurley Drew received a patent for his adhesive tape, which was later ...

The Royal Navy pilot took on the fearsome battleship with only his flimsy Swordfish fighter plane A BRIT war hero who single-handedly took on Germany’s most fearsome warship has died at the age of 97.

It was a dramatic David and Goliath clash – a single man in a flimsy biplane taking on one of the biggest battleships ever built. Yet against the odds that man, Lieutenant Commander John “Jock” Moffat ...

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Royal Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander John “Jock” Moffat launched the torpedo that crippled the pride of Hitler’s fleet during the Second World War. The air strike, carried out by biplanes from HMS ...