Monday, May 19, 1941 - Bismarck on the sea

[Louis]

In the early hours of 19 May 1941 (02:00), battleships Bismarck and Prinz Eugen left Gotenhafen and proceeded through the Baltic Sea and out towards the Atlantic. This begins an operation that will become legendary and reverberate through history. This is the first step of Operation Rheinübung, a sortie into the North Atlantic. Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, both under the control of Admiral Günther Lütjens.
What Lütjens did not imagine was that they would be discovered shortly ...

Bismarck, seen from the Prinz Eugen, 19 May 1941

 

[mTk]

It was certainly an intimidating BB!
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[Gunner]

Nice.

 

[Louis]

Step by step, the adventure of Bismarck.

 

[Gunner]

They actually found the Bismarck at the bottom of the ocean.