WW2 Naval Warfare

The German battleship Bismarck was sunk on May 27, 1941 by a British fleet off Brest, France.

One account lists only 115 survivors and 1,995 killed of Bismarck's crew. It is unknown how many were lost after the ship was scuttled, because neither British nor German ships reached most of the men in the water.

The dead included the captain and almost all senior officers, killed on the bridge by a 14-inch shell fired by the British battleships.

First answer: The Eastern front and Western front. The Eastern front: Germans attacked in Moscow. Soviets counterattacked and forced Germans to retreat.

The Western front: Under General Eisenhower, the Allied forces took on Operation Overlord to invade the Nazi occupied parts of Europe. Operation Overlord was the start of D-Day.

Second Improved answer: There were actually three fronts when you include the Mediterranean/Italian Front. This front began in North Africa, then to Sicily & on to Italy. The Allies fought there way north up the boot of Italy into the southern Alps towards Austria & Germany.

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In world war two there were many jobs for both genders. With the soldiers off fighting, women here had to take on the job roles in factories to continue production as well as send goods over to troops. So jobs during World War Two were:

Factory Jobs

Soldier

General

Nurse

Doctor

Farmer (people still need to eat, even in a crisis)

Government

Messenger

Sniper

Spy

Various jobs on a boat

Various jobs to do with airplanes

That depends. Rifle, shotgun, pistol, cannon, pellet gun, or airsoft? The 16" guns on a battleship can fire a one ton shell about 26 miles, but they are not "on the market". For rifles, the .50 BMG is close to the upper limit. Shotguns- the 10 g 3.5" magnum, and handgun is a tossup- .500 S&W being in the upper ranks, although there are many handguns in rifle calibers (even one in .600 Nitro Express, and one in .50 BMG)

For rifles, it's probablly the Russian PTRS anti-tank rifle. The 14.5 x 114mm cartridge fires a 65.5 gram bullet at 3200 feet per second- far more energcy than the .50 Barrett, or elephant guns such as the .600 Nitro Express or .460 Weatherby magnum.

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The u boat can dive 200 to 250feet deep

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I have checked the book & can't find an entry for Norman Thomson. The book in question was printed by a company called Lamb which were based in Perth, Australia & there is a foreword in the book by Capt. P.V. McLaughlin, RN dated July 1946. I also have another book about HMS Swiftsure 'Crossing the Line ceremony', December 1944, not sure he would be mentioned in there. A photograph was taken of the whole crew when the ship was in Hong Kong, which I have, he could be on it, as my Grandfather is.

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Many of the soldiers in the US Revolutionary War died from typhus or smallpox. Others died from lack of proper nutrition. Conditions were often terribly unsanitary, causing some to die, especially when their immune systems were already compromised. More soldiers actually died from diseases than were killed in fighting.

The nation of France capitulates after the Dunkirk evacuation of French and British forces .

50 million dead Russians would tell you the Soviet Union. They killed the most Germans, took the most shells, shot down the most planes, and in the end absolutely Hitler's hope for victory. It all hangs on that word 'contribute'. In terms of blood and lives lost - it was the USSR. It's estimated that 20 million people from the various Soviet republics lost their lives in WWII. The USSR tied up huge amounts of German men and material on the Eastern front, helping make the D-Day landings both feasible and successful. It was the Soviets who did most of the actual slog fighting on the ground. In monitary terms, the US. No doubt. The US effectively bankrolled the allies in WWII. They also supplied vast amounts of aid to the USSR, so the Soviets could tie down the Germans, and eventually roll them back to within the borders of Germany itself. The mobilisation of US industry was a huge achievement. Britain played a huge part technologically - radar and sonar for example, or the development of the code-cracking computer at Bletchley Park. Or development of the armour piercing discarding sabot round for tackling German heavy tanks. Or the refinement of the centimetric cavity magnetron (actually a US invention originally), enabling radar sets to become small enough to fit in a plane. The jet engine - a pity we didn't make more of it earlier. Still, it's a big list. So, asking 'who contributed most' is completely pointless unless the question is further defined. At the end of the day we all somehow pulled together, and Hitler was defeated.

Either voice, via conventional radio transmissions; Or "Morse Code" (CW, or Continuous Wave) communication. the machine that they used was to send the codes to the other station during the war, and to tell if there were going to be enemys near by, and so that they can attacked them before the enemy did.

The Soviet's first atomic bomb test. - PLATO, making every student's lives heaven and hell at the same time since 2010.

British battleships King George V & Rodneygunfire along with gunfire & torpedoes from heavy cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire. Also the British battleship Prince of Wales, British Swordfish torpedo bombers had scored a few hits in the days prior to the Bismarck's final battle.

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One of the best known survivors still alive (in 2009) is Elie Wiesel. Two members of the Auschwitz Women's orchester are still alive - Esther Bejarano (born in 1924, currently living in Hamburg) and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (born in 1925, currently living in London). In the 1980s Esther Bejarano formed a small group called Coinocidence which sang songs from the ghettos, other Jewish songs and also anti-Fascist songs. Two other members are thought to be alive, but there seems to be very little information about them - Hilde Grunbaum and Rivka Kupfeberg.

The Battle of the Coral Sea, history's first clash of aircraft carriers; the Battle of Midway, history's first DECISIVE clash of aircraft carriers.

Same way people always have caught malaria - through getting bitten by mosquitoes carrying the disease.

The largest amphibious invasion of WWII was D-Day. Also known as Operation Overlord. It took place on June 6th, 1944. Might want to search it up.

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(or the equivalent in your own country).

At the time of the Peleliu operation, Task Force 38 was comprised of 15 carriers divided into four Task Groups. Task Group 38.1 consisted of Hornet (CV-12), Wasp (CV-18), Belleau Wood (CVL-24), and Cowpens (CVL-25); Task Group 38.2 consisted of Intrepid (CV-11), Bunker Hill (CV-17), Cabot (CVL-28), and Independence (CVL-22); Task Group 38.3 consisted of Essex (CV-9), Lexington (CV-16), Princeton (CVL-23), and Langley (CVL-27); Task Group 38.4 consisted of Enterprise (CV-6), Franklin (CV-13), and San Jacinto (CVL-30).

The Islands of Makin and Tarawa were the objectives of the V- th Amphibious Corps consisting of the Army's 27th Infantry Division and the 2nd Marine Division and was code named Galvanic. Makin was the Army's target and it was defended by about 300 Japanese and 500 Korean laborers. Tarawa's 4,800 defenders were the Marine's objective, and the island was taken with 3,301 casualties including 1,000 killed. There were Japanese and Korean labor survivors. Makin had cost the 27th Infantry 66 killed and 152 wounded and 395 of Makin's defenders were killed. The biggest American tragedy of the Gilbert Islands campaign was the loss of the Liscome Bay, an escort carrier and the 642 sailors who went down with the ship. This was a US victory that the Corps commander said had "no particular strategic importance".

Coral Sea was history's FIRST clash of aircraft carriers. It taught the world's navies what would happen when carrier fleets fought each other. The stage was now set for "Midway." "Midway" was a turning point; for it destroyed the IJN's best airmen that flew their fighters, torpedo bombers, and dive bombers. It also destroyed their best/experienced flight deck crewmen. Those men could not be replaced in time to continue the war.