Courtesy Orkney Library and Archive The crew of a German destroyer abandoning ship The only civilian witnesses were schoolchildren from Stromness who were on a trip to view the German fleet ...

Nine German battleships, five battlecruisers, seven light cruisers and 49 destroyers - the most modern ships of the German High Seas Fleet - were handed over to the Allied forces off the east of ...

The StuG III, or Sturmgeschütz III, was the most produced German armored fighting vehicle in WWII. It could penetrate the front armor of tanks like the KV-1. The powerful tank destroyer and its ...

This will be the largest ship built for the German Navy since World War II ... their size matches that of modern destroyers. When planning the construction of large ships, the Germans assumed ...