In the early years of World War II, the DKM Bismarck was the pride of the German fleet. The warship featured 40-centimeter guns capable of destroying an enemy vessel more than 20
kilometers away. But in May 1941, the British Navy assembled a massive armada and launched an attack against the Bismarck. The act was retaliation for the German vessel's assault on the HMS Hood, an event that sent more than 1,000 men to their watery graves.

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