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Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 4 of 8; photographed from Prinz Eugen, note shells from Prince of Wales splashing short and Bismarck listing b	Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 5 of 5; photographed from Prinz Eugen

Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 6 of 8	Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 7 of 8

Hood exploding at Denmark Strait, seen from Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941	Painting by Claus Bergen depicting the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and battleship Bismarck firing on British warships Hood and Prince of Wales

Shells from Hood fell near cruiser Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941	Smoke from Prince of Wales and Hood, seen from Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941, photo 1 of 2

Smoke from Prince of Wales and Hood, seen from Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941, photo 2 of 2	Aerial photograph of Wake taken from a PBY Catalina on 25 May 1941, looking west along the northern side, with Peale Island in the center and Wilkes Island in the left distance

Battleship Bismarck burning in the distance as seen from a British warship, 27 May 1941	HMS Rodney firing on German battleship Bismarck, 27 May 1941

Map showing the final boundaries of the United States Atlantic Neutrality Zone that became effective 27 May 1941.	Survivors of battleship Bismarck being pulled aboard HMS Dorsetshire, 27 May 1941

Map depicting the German assault on Crete, Greece, 20-31 May 1941	Wounded British troops disembarking at an Egyptian port after being evacuated from Crete, Greece, 31 May 1941

German Generaloberst Heinz Guderian holding a map during a field briefing with his division commanders in Russia in front of a PzKpfw III medium tank, summer 1941	German glider trooper exiting a DFS 230 glider, Crete, Greece, May-Jun 1941

Killed Greek civilians in Kondomari, Crete, Greece, 2 Jun 1941	A crashed German glider with two of its occupants lying dead alongside, Crete, Greece, 6 Jun 1941