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This list of World War II films (1950–1989) contains fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1950 which feature events of World War II in the narrative. The entries on this list are war films or miniseries that are concerned with World War II (or the Sino-Japanese War) and include events which feature as a part of the war effort.
Patton is a 1970 American epic biographical war film about U.S. General George S. Patton during World War II.It stars George C. Scott as Patton and Karl Malden as General Omar Bradley, and was directed by Franklin J. Schaffner from a script by Francis Ford Coppola and Edmund H. North, who based their screenplay on Patton: Ordeal and Triumph by Ladislas Farago and Bradley's memoir, A Soldier's ...
Battleships: Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-87021-101-0. Greger, Rene (1964). "German Seaplane and Aircraft Carriers in Both World Wars". Warship International. I (1– 12). Toledo: Naval Records Club, Inc.: 87– 91. OCLC 29828398. Gröner, Erich (1990). German Warships ...
The German aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin was the lead ship in a class of two carriers of the same name ordered by the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany.She was the only aircraft carrier launched by Germany and represented part of the Kriegsmarine ' s attempt to create a well-balanced oceangoing fleet, capable of projecting German naval power far beyond the narrow confines of the Baltic and North Seas.
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Graf Zeppelin is launched, 8 December 1938.. After 1933, the Kriegsmarine began to examine the possibility of building an aircraft carrier. [1] Wilhelm Hadeler had been Assistant to the Professor of Naval Construction at the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg (now Technische Universität Berlin) for nine years when he was appointed to draft preliminary designs for an aircraft carrier in ...
HMS Ark Royal was sent to the waters off Sierra Leone in West Africa as part of newly formed Force K to assist with providing protection for Allied merchant ships and to sink German ships. Aircraft from the carrier located a German cargo ship, [f] which Force K captured. [50] [51]
Pages in category "World War II aircraft carriers of Germany" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.