A photograph of the Bismarck taken from the Prinz Eugen in Norwegian waters on May 21, 1941. The dazzle camouflage stripes had not yet been painted out, nor had the false bow waves.

The Bismarck battleship, accompanied by a smaller cruiser, Prinz Eugen, first landed in German-occupied Norway. After refueling, they headed towards Iceland and then to open waters of the Atlantic.

When Britain discovered that Germany had deployed the formidable Bismarck and heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen to wreak havoc in the Atlantic, they scrambled to intercept them at any cost. On May 24, 1941, ...

On May 18, 1941, Bismarck and its escort, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, embarked on Operation Rheinübung, a campaign to sink Allied shipping in the North Atlantic and knock Britain out of the war.

A German naval officer on the Prinz Eugen gives a careful account of the pursuit and sinking of the Bismarck in May 1941.

Prinz Eugen was a marvel of German naval engineering from the 1930s, renowned for her advanced design and capabilities. She played a key role in World War II, most notably in the Battle of the ...

In 1941, HMS Victorious, a formidable British aircraft carrier, joined the mission to locate and attack the German battleship Bismarck and its escort, Prinz Eugen. With her Fairey Swordfish ...

The Bismarck spent the eight months following its commission in the eastern Baltic, and in mid-May 1941, under the command of Admiral Lutjens, the Bismarck and the cruiser Prinz Eugen broke out ...

A photograph of the Bismarck taken from the Prinz Eugen in Norwegian waters on May 21, 1941. The dazzle camouflage stripes had not yet been painted out, nor had the false bow waves.