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News Chronicle 28 May 1941.- Originals are often sold on eBay for a couple of dollars. Go there and do a search. By the way, we transcribed all Bismarck related articles included within this newspaper in HTML format a long time ago and are available on this website. See link: http://www.kbismarck.co...

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Also, the Polish monographs of Miroslaw Skwiot “Pancerniki typu Bismarck”, vols. 15-19, published by AJ-PRESS include excellent drawings in A1 size of both sides of Bismarck and Tirpitz with the different modifications carried out. Check the book section of the site.

It was Warspite against the Giulio Cesare. The engagement took place in the morning of 9 July 1940 near Punta Stilo, and the recorded distance of the hit was 26,000 yards (23,800 meters). Almost exactly a month earlier, on 8 June, the Scharnhorst had scored her first hit on the British carrier Glori...

The only reason the Bismarck was not scuttled earlier in the morning of 27 May was because, although unable to manoeuvre, she was still capable to defend herself and inflict damage on the enemy. From a message to Group West sent at midnight on 27 May: “[The] ship is weaponry-wise and mechanically fu...