Bismarck: Why its mission made sense!
Military History Visualized
•
13m
Sponsored by World of Warships: Legends! Click here ► https://wo.ws/2Q3sMnm to check out the game on PlayStation®4, PlayStation®5 or Xbox One X, Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X. Most of you know about the German battleship Bismarck, its initial battle with HMS Hood and Prince of Wales, its evasion of the British forces until its steering was hit by Swordfish Torpedo bombers from HMS Ark Royal and its ultimate demise. Yet, what rarely gets covered is the strategic and operational aspects behind sending out a battleship into the Atlantic. »» GET OUR BOOK «« » Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 - http://www.hdv470-7.com »» SUPPORT MHV «« » patreon - see videos early (adfree) - https://www.patreon.com/join/mhv » subscribe star - https://www.subscribestar.com/mhv » paypal donation - https://paypal.me/mhvis » YouTube Membership - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCK09g6gYGMvU-0x1VCF1hgA/join »» MERCHANDISE «« » teespring - https://teespring.com/stores/military-history-visualized » SOURCES « BArch, RM 6/1957: Operationen und Taktik: Auswertung wichtiger Ereignisse des Seekrieges. Heft 3: Die Atlantikunternehmung der Kampfgruppe “Bismarck” – „Prinz Eugen“, Mai 1941. Oberkommando der Kriegsmarine: Berlin, Oktober 1942. Garzke, William H.; Dulin Jr, Robert O.; Jurens, William: Battleship Bismarck: A Design and Operational History. Seaforth Publishing: Barnsley, UK, 2019. Mawdsley, Evan: The War for the Seas: A Maritime History of World War II. Yale University Press: New Haven, Connecticut, USA, 2019. Symonds, Craig L.: World War II at Sea. A Global History. Oxford University Press: New York, 2018. German Extended Translation (used for this video) Potter, E.B.; Nimitz, Ch. W.; Rohwer, Jürgen: Seemacht – Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Kast, Bernhard (ed.); Bergs, Christoph (ed.): The Assault Platoon of the Grenadier-Company November 1944. German Army Pamphlet – Merkblatt 25a/16. Deutsch / English. Bernhard Kast: Linz, Austria, 2020. #Sponsored #Bismarck #WhySendTheBismarck
Up Next in Military History Visualized
-
Why didn't the Germans copy the T-34?
Why not just copy the T-34 like German front-line officers suggested in 1941? This question shows up quite often. In this video we look at the various reasons on why the T-34 was not copied by the Germans and produced by them. »» GET OUR BOOK: Army Regulation Medium Panzer Company 1941 German/Eng...
-
German Army: Why No Collapse
The Wehrmacht during the Second World War sustained two times the deaths of the Imperial German Army in the First World War, yet it did not collapse, quite on the contrary it fought until the bitter end. Why was this the case? Why did the Wehrmacht and particularly the German Army did not collaps...
-
Why not just go from the 109 to the 262?
In this video Military Aviation History and Military History Visualized talk about the problems going from the a piston-engine aircraft to a jet-powered aircraft, exemplified by the Me 109 and Me 262. Big thank you to Felix Wander for many of the information that went into this video and for the ...
