In the pre-dawn hours of March 18, 1945, German torpedo boat TA24 and destroyer TA32 raced desperately through the Ligurian ...

On December 31, 1942, amid the freezing Arctic seas, HMS Achates bravely led a convoy of merchant ships toward the Soviet ...

The Kriegsmarine had been trying to block trans-Atlantic shipping routes since the war began, and its capital ships had played an important role in intercepting or sinking Allied shipping.

Hoping to avoid expected budget cuts to the surface fleet, Grand Adm. Erich Raeder, head of the Kriegsmarine, planned a large commerce raid in 1941 that would involve both Bismarck-class ...

The pride of the Kriegsmarine. Naval History and Heritage Command (NH 59671) The Bismarck was significantly larger than the Nazis let on.

The German battleship Bismarck was the the pride of the Kriegsmarine, Nazi Germany’s naval service. Construction began in 1936, and the ship was commissioned in April 1940. It and its sister ...

After the Tirpitz was commissioned into the war in 1941, Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Erich Raeder decided that it be sent to Norway, which had been successfully occupied by the Nazis the previous year.

The Kriegsmarine planned a massive naval operation for May 1941. Scharnhorst and Gneisenau would depart from Brest and lead the Royal Navy to the south. In the meantime, ...