The Tirpitz was one of WWII’s largest and most powerful battleships, earning a reputation as “unsinkable.” This video explores its design, missions, and the dramatic battles that defined its ...

Germany's pocket battleships didn't weigh more than the Treaty of Versailles stipulated its battleships could weigh, but they were armed just as heavily.

Germany’s Tirpitz was the heaviest battleship ever built in Europe, and its presence in Norwegian waters threatened Allied supply lines to the USSR. This film traces the Allied response—one of ...

German battleship Tirpitz, 1942. (Photo Credit: Division of Naval Intelligence of the Navy Department of the United States / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) From as early as 1942, the Allies (in ...

This new compound, used in mines, torpedoes and depth charges, gave the Allies a crucial advantage. Torpex-filled Tallboy bombs helped sink the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944.

“Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory” thrillingly chronicles the westward surge against Japanese-held island groups by the U.S. Navy’s new armada of aircraft ...

The battlecruiser Hood and the battleship Prince of Wales were ordered to sail from Scapa Flow to the Denmark Strait in order to intercept the German vessels.

While German U-Boats are the most deadly component of the Third Reich's naval arsenal, it had a sizeable fleet of battleships as well. The United States even used a surrendered German battleship ...