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"Never interrupt an enemy who's making a mistake." Napoléon Bonaparte

8 years 10 months ago - 8 years 10 months ago #25 by Nikita

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"Sink the Bismarck !"
Winston Churchill
May 24, 1941

May 27, 1941. The beast is dead.

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Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come (Victor Hugo)

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crew: 2.092
survivors: 116

Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.

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Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!(Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!) "Dwarvish battlecry"

8 years 10 months ago - 8 years 10 months ago #27 by Otto

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Oh my god That is really big ship. Its sad, that only 116 survivors were safe

and you be chased by women all around the world
"Gimli son of Gloin"

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"Never interrupt an enemy who's making a mistake." Napoléon Bonaparte

8 years 10 months ago - 8 years 10 months ago #28 by Nikita

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Otto wrote: Oh my god That is really big ship. Its sad, that only 116 survivors were safe

The Bismarck was the most powerful battleship of the German navy ("Kriegsmarine") during WW2.
His sistership, the Tirpitz , is the one we know well by playing the map Operation Seawolf - Steam piping in H&D2.
But there, it's only a game...

However, the biggest battleship ever built remain the Japanese Yamato , (displacement:72800 tons, main armament:9x460mm guns in 3 turrets), who also will have a tragic end in August 1945...

In France, sailors have this traditional word : "Prière pour un bateau qui meurt" (Prayer for a dying ship)...

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Baruk Khazâd! Khazâd ai-mênu!(Axes of the Dwarves! The Dwarves are upon you!) "Dwarvish battlecry"

8 years 10 months ago #29 by Otto

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I know this battleship Jamato. This great battleship was destroyed by 300 war airplanes. That is really tragic end of this proud japenese battleship

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"Gimli son of Gloin"

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Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come (Victor Hugo)

8 years 10 months ago - 8 years 10 months ago #30 by Morty

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A War machine, of what kind or shape ever,
is designed in its perfection without a soul, only for the purpose to bring nothing else than destruction, harm and death.

For me, finally it only matters what happens with the destiniy of human beings who are connected or faced with it in history with the fate of this iron madness...

Unknown dead soldiers fallen for the sick ideas of others...
An incredible waste of life and destinies... Imagine what these people could have done for the good of this world, if they would have got the chance to live longer...

We never should forget this... life is unique and each of us only has one small piece of it...
Life is a single chance...

Always be yourself unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.

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