Bismarck sunk
May 27, 1941
The pride of the German navy, the battleship Bismarck, broke out into the Atlantic, sank HMS Hood in minutes, and was hunted down by the entire British fleet. A single lucky torpedo jammed her rudder. The next morning she was pounded to a burning hulk and scuttled. Fifteen hundred German sailors died. The U-boats would now carry the fight alone.
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Also in 1941 (6 other events on record)
- Operation Barbarossa · Europe · War
- Pearl Harbor · North America · War
- Japan strikes across the Pacific · East Asia · War
- Singapore campaign begins · Southeast Asia · War
- Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech · North America · War
- Atlantic Charter issued · North America · Politics
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