Here’s What You Need to Remember: Scharnhorst remained at Kiel for most of 1942. In early 1943, it proceeded to Norway where it operated as part of a “fleet in being” with Prinz Eugen, Tirpitz (the ...
The Treaty of Versailles drastically limited the size of the postwar Kriegsmarine, precluding Germany from owning any dreadnought battleships. The Germans could keep (and replace) pre-dreadnought ...
Deep in the Arctic, the German battleship Scharnhorst hunted an Allied convoy under the cover of icy darkness. The thick fog ...
Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector ...
Joseph Stalin last week congratulated Britain’s home fleet on sinking the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst (see above). Next day, Moscow’s Red Star published a cartoon showing a forlorn ...
Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...