BBC - Heroes and Weapons of WWII — Season 1, Episode 17: The Battleship
Documentary • 30 min • 1 season, 20 episodes
Episode synopsis
How battleships lost their naval supremacy during the conflict because of their vulnerability to aerial attack. The pride of the German Navy, the Bismarck, was crippled by Swordfish torpedo aircraft, while the state-of-the-art HMS Prince of Wales was sunk in the Pacific by Japanese planes.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Men Who Invented Radar
- E2The Man Who Designed the Spitfire
- E3The Men Who Liberated Belsen
- E4The Man Who Saved Britain's Cities
- E5The Man Who Stood Up to Hitler
- E6The Men Who Cracked Enigma
- E7The Men Who Sank the Bismarck
- E8The Men Who Lit Up Germany
- E9The Man Who Hoodwinked Hitler
- E10The Men Behind D-Day
- E11Tanks
- E12Midget Submarines