Battle of the Denmark Strait 1941

The Battle of the Denmark Strait was a World War II naval conflict between ships of the Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine. The British battleship Prince of Wales and the battlecruiser Hood fought the German battleship Bismarck and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, both of which were attempting to break out into the North Atlantic to destroy Allied merchant shipping. Less than ten minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from one of the two ships, most likely Bismarck struck Hood near ...

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