Nazi Germany’s Bismarck and Tirpitz, along with the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato and Musashi, are some of the most famous battleships to see service during the Second World War. There were other Axis battleships, of course. The German Kriegsmarine operated two Scharnhorst-class battleships, while the IJN maintained a fleet of big-gun capital vessels. (Subscribe to […]
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