HMS Courageous (50)
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HMS Courageous was the lead ship of her class of three battlecruisers built for the Royal Navy in the First World War. Designed to support the Baltic Project championed by First Sea Lord John Fisher,
Courageous shortly after completion in 1916
Courageous as an aircraft carrier in 1935
Fairey Flycatcher
Blackburn Skua
Kriegsmarine
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The Kriegsmarine was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire and the inter-war Reichsmarine of the Weimar Republic. The Kriegsmarine was
HMS Courageous (50)
…German submarine force, Commodore Karl Dönitz, regarded the sinking of Courageous as "a wonderful success" and it led to widespread jubilation in the Kriegsmarine (German navy). Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, commander of the Kriegsmarine, directed that Schuhart be awarded the Iron Cross First Class and that all…
Erich Raeder, commander of the Kriegsmarine until 1943
U-boat crew
The crew of a minesweeper in France, 1941
The battleship Tirpitz in Norway, 1944