1945 Offshore Bombardment -  Robert Taylor End of postings: lot will be posted for download in

1945 Offshore Bombardment -  Robert Taylor

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The Prinz Eugen was one of the finest and most famous ships in the German Kriegsmarine. In company with the mighty Bismarck, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen is forever remembered for her part in the sinking of the Royal Navy’s HMS Hood and later in the Operation Cerberus when she accompanied the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in the famous Channel Dash. The Prinz Eugen, however, was a magnificent fighting machine in her own right with a long, sleek hull and a superstructure packed with enormous firepower. Whenever she put to sea she posed a fearsome threat.Unleashing her terrible broadside against Russian land positions in the Baltic during the final months of the war in 1945, Prinz Eugen is painted at her magnificent best. Although she survived the war – she surrendered at Copenhagen – her end was inauspicious, but no less historic. She was taken out to Bikini Atoll in the Pacific and used as a target in the testing of atomic bombs.