The German Fleet at War, 1939-1945The German Fleet at War relates the little-known history of the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet with a focus on the sixty-nine surface naval battles fought by Germany's major warships against the large warships of the British, French, American, Polish, Soviet, Norwegian and Greek navies. It emphasizes operational details but also paints a broad overview of the naval war. The book addresses the lack of information about the specifics of naval engagements in World War II and provides a database of naval engagements for comparison and analysis, but unlike most reference works, it has a continuous narrative and a theme. The result is a unique overview of the German and Allied navies at war that provides new appreciation of their activities and accomplishments. |
Contents
The Bismarck Cycle of Battles | |
Actions in Soviet Waters | |
The English Channel and the French Coast | |
Battles of the Polar Sea | |
The Eastern Mediterranean | |
Actions in the English Channel and French | |
Waters 1943 | |
French Waters after DDay | |
Norway and the Baltic | |
Equivalents Abbreviations and Definitions of Terms | |
Notes | |
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aboard action Admiral aircraft Allied Ships TYP Annapolis Arctic battle battleship Bernd von Arnim Bismarck British destroyers Captain coast coastal Commander Convoy attack crew damage Destroyer Flotilla Diether von Roeder DPL SPD GUNS Encounter enemy engaged English Channel Erich Giese Erich Koellner escort exploded five fjord fleet flotilla force Georg Thiele German destroyers German navy German Ships Gneisenau gunfire GUNS TT GP Hans Lody harbor Hipper hundred yards Interception WEATHER knots launched light cruisers Liitjens Ludemann miles minesweepers minutes later MISSION MTBs Narvik Naval Institute Press navy’s night opened fire operation port Prinz Eugen radar range returned fire Roeder sailed salvos sank Scharnhorst shore batteries smoke Soviet SPD GUNS TT specific intelligence speed star shell starboard submarine Sunk surface SURPRISE target thousand yards torpedo attack torpedo boats TT GP DAM turned turret TYP YL DFL U-boats Vestfjord VISIBILITY warships waters YL DFL SPD