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Throughout that night, Bismarck was the target of intermittent torpedo attacks by Vian's destroyers. In ten approaches between 22:38 and 06:56 Cossack, Maori, Zulu and Sikh fired sixteen torpedoes but none hit. One of Bismarck ' s shells sheared off Cossack ' s antenna and three other shells straddled Zulu, wounding three men. Between 02:30 and ...
Expedition: Bismarck is a 2002 documentary film produced for the Discovery Channel by Andrew Wight and James Cameron, directed by James Cameron and Gary Johnstone, and narrated by Lance Henriksen. The film follows an underwater expedition to the German Battleship Bismarck and digitally reconstructs events that led up to the ship's sinking ...
One hits, but Bismarck returns fire, sinking the destroyer HMS Solent. [Note 1] The main force of British ships, including battleships HMS Rodney and HMS King George V, find Bismarck the next day and rain shells upon her. Lütjens insists that German forces will arrive to save them, but he is killed when a shell strikes Bismarck ' s bridge. The ...
After several engagements over the previous days - including the sinking of HMS Hood during the Battle of the Denmark Strait three days prior - on May 27, 1941, elements of the Royal Navy sink the German battleship Bismarck, Germany's largest battleship ever made, and one of the largest warships of the Second World War.
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Photographs from the Associated Press show the extent of the destruction to the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Md., after a cargo ship crashed into it early Tuesday morning, causing it to ...
The nation said a proper farewell to former President Jimmy Carter during his funeral service in Washington D.C. on Thursday. President Joe Biden, who declared Thursday a national day of mourning ...
Pictures from the scene show the semitruck’s rear wheels lifted off the roadway, with the rear top corner of the trailer seemingly wedged into a steel beam on the bridge infrastructure.