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To: C19fan

Handsome ship. I will say, I was generally not a fan of german aviation for the most part (FW-190 and ME-262 were good looking planes) but the Bismark and Prince Eugen were very nice looking naval vessels.

And capable. By all accounts, they had some of the best optical fire control systems out there (probably Zeiss...:)


5 posted on 09/18/2018 9:32:14 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: rlmorel

I always thought the Admiral Hipper class of heavy cruiser, of which Eugen was part of, looked like Mini-Me version of the Bismarck.


8 posted on 09/18/2018 9:35:26 AM PDT by C19fan
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Prinz Eugen was part of the “Channel Dash”. So were Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

The Channel Dash - Operation Cerberus - is legendary (or infamous, to the Brits).


27 posted on 09/18/2018 10:16:29 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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