On May 18, 1941, the German battleship Bismarck began its first ever combat mission. It was the most powerful ship in Europe ...

Hood broke in half and sank, taking 1,418 men with it. Bismarck, despite its stunning victory, had not emerged from the battle unscathed. Hit three times by Prince of Wales, it lost some of its ...

“The Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril,” said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force ...