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War memorial in Neuhofen im Innkreis also commemorating Franz Kienast, who died aged 23 in the sinking of the Bismarck. Dorsetshire and Maori picked up 85 and 25 survivors respectively. At 11:40 a lookout on the Dorsetshire thought he spotted a periscope and the rescue effort was abandoned whilst hundreds of Bismarck ' s
When Bismarck was in Norway, a pair of Bf 109 fighters circled overhead to protect her from British air attacks, but Flying Officer Michael Suckling managed to fly his Spitfire directly over the German flotilla at a height of 8,000 m (26,000 ft) and take photos of Bismarck and her escorts. [47]
Oscar (known by his nickname, Unsinkable Sam, or by the Germanized spelling of his name, Oskar) was a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships in 1941 - the German battleship Bismarck, and then the British destroyer HMS Cossack and aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
Painting by J.C. Schmitz-Westerholt, depicting Hood sinking stern first; Prince of Wales is in the foreground Just before 06:00, while Hood was turning 20° to port to unmask her rear turrets, she was hit again on the boat deck by one or more shells from Bismarck ' s fifth salvo, fired from a range of approximately 16,650 metres (18,210 yd) (or ...
Theorists argue that the death of Stephen Chamberlain, co-defendant of Lynch in his trial, who perished after being struck by a vehicle while jogging in Cambridgeshire last Saturday (August 17) is ...
The Bismarck class was a pair of fast battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of World War II.The ships were the largest and most powerful warships built for the Kriegsmarine; displacing more than 41,000 metric tons (40,000 long tons) normally, they were armed with a battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h ...
Bob Cole, 100, stands near a model of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8), on which Cole served, on the 80th anniversary of the sinking of the ship, while visiting the Veterans Memorial Museum ...
Survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash including Dr. Roberto Canessa amid a new Netflix movie "Society of the Snow" that recounts their ordeal including eating human flesh to stay alive.