Deathmatch: Hitler's Super Warship Bismarck vs. Japan's Mammoth Battleship Yamato
Robert Farley
History, Asia
Japanese policy in the Pacific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries kept German regional ambitions firmly in mind.
Key Point: Germany's slow-moving battleship would not fare well against her swift Japanese counterparts.
Can we imagine a scenario in which two titans of World War II, the German battleship Bismarck and the Japanese battleship Yamato, would come into conflict? Difficult, but not impossible. Had the Battle of the Marne gone the other way... Читать дальше...