kriegsmarine in English

noun

German navy previous to and during World War II

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1. This included the Heer (army), Kriegsmarine (navy), and the Luftwaffe (air force).

2. In 1935, Adolf Hitler announced that Germany would construct aircraft carriers to strengthen the Kriegsmarine.

3. Seven T-2s were rebuilt to T-1 standards and handed over to the Kriegsmarine on 19 May 1942.

4. Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck -class battleships that were ordered for the Kriegsmarine in the years prior to World War II

5. Furthermore, five coastal groups (Küstenfliegergruppen) with reconnaissance aircraft, torpedo bombers, Minensuch aerial minesweepers and air-sea rescue seaplanes supported the Kriegsmarine, although with lesser resources as the war progressed.

6. The Bismarck class was a pair of fast battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine shortly before the outbreak of World War II.The ships were the largest and most powerful warships built for the Kriegsmarine; displacing more than 41,000 metric tons (40,000 long tons) normally, they were armed with a battery of eight 38 cm (15 in) guns and were capable of a top speed of 30 knots (56 km/h

7. While the 28.3 cm guns were of a smaller caliber than main guns of other navies, they were still preferred by a number of gunnery officers in the Kriegsmarine due to their higher rate of fire.

8. The Kriegsmarine had acquired some knowledge of the area; Dönitz was an officer aboard UB-68 which had been sunk in the region in World War I. U-boats had also served in the Spanish Civil War.

9. Having its most-common usage as such, ignores massive evidence to the contrary. As branch-of-service identification, Wehrmacht vehicles had an alpha-numeric identity license plate reading WH for the Heer, WL for the Luftwaffe, and WM for the Kriegsmarine, plus, SS for the "Waffen-SS".

10. Owing to the substantial superiority of the Royal Navy's surface forces, Germany's Imperial Navy (in World War I) and Kriegsmarine (in World War II) had little hope of seizing control of the high seas, but with submarines the Germans could hope to defeat the British by choking off their crucial access to seaborne commerce.