In the black veil of dawn on May 19, 1941, the giant Bismarck, a battleship of unheard-of strength, glided into the Baltic Sea, beginning her journey. The German navy had not built such a monstrosity ...
"Unsinkable," they called it, and they weren't referring to Molly Brown or the Titanic. The Bismarck was a World War II killing machine, boasting 15-inch guns that could sink a vessel 12 miles away.
The Bismarck’s terrifying effectiveness led the Royal Navy to make the battleship’s destruction their main goal in the early ...