• PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    1 month ago

    Explanation: During WW2, the pride of the Nazi navy, the battleship Bismarck, engaged and sunk one of the capital ships of the British Royal Navy. This was celebrated by the Nazis as a victory.

    This resulted in the Royal Navy organizing a massive search-and-destroy operation to AVENGE BRITISH NAVAL HONOR, at which point the Bismarck was quite promptly sunk.

    Good riddance to Nazi rubbish!

  • kalpol@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    No joke, more people died on the campaign to sink the Bismarck than 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. From memory about 2000 men on Hood, 3 survivors, and 2200 on Bismarck, about 200 survivors.

    This picture isn’t that though, this looks like fleet exercises, and I think the battleships in the rear are American with the old style basket masts.