“The Bismarck Sea may not be mine, but it is no longer his and he crosses it at his peril,” said Douglas MacArthur a year ago. It had begun to be his a few days before when his Fifth Air Force swooped ...

The long-standing controversy of sea power v. air power was settled once and for all by the Hood-Bismarck affair and by the battle for Crete. The answer was not that air power had proved indisputably ...

What You Need to Know: HMS Hood, the pride of the British Royal Navy, symbolized British imperial power during the interwar years. Designed under the Washington Naval Treaty, this fast... 3 Key Points ...

Despite the vast scope of the Second World War, the navies of the United States and Nazi Germany fought few, if any, direct surface engagements. By the time of America’s entry into the war the Royal ...