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At the outbreak of the Second World War Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine had 21 destroyers (German: Zerstörer) in service, while another one was just being completed. [1] These 22 vessels – comprising 3 classes (Type 34, 34A and 36) – had all been built in the 1930s, making them modern vessels (no destroyers remained in German hands following the close of the First World War).
Hitler said as a personal note to the Anschluss: "I, myself, as Führer and Chancellor, will be happy to walk on the soil of the country that is my home as a free German citizen." [69] [70] Hitler's popularity reached an unprecedented peak after he fulfilled the Anschluss because he had completed the long-awaited idea of a Greater Germany.
Convoy PQ 18 (2–21 September 1942) was an Arctic convoy of forty Allied freighters from Scotland and Iceland to Arkhangelsk in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. The convoy departed Loch Ewe , Scotland on 2 September 1942, rendezvoused with more ships and escorts at Iceland and arrived at Arkhangelsk on 21 September.
Destroyer 1,587 2 October 1939 sunk 6 October 1943 Beverley Royal Navy: Town: Destroyer 1,200 8 October 1940 sunk 11 April 1943 Bezuprechny Soviet Navy: Gnevny: Destroyer 1,587 2 October 1939 sunk 26 June 1942 Biddle United States Navy: Wickes: Destroyer 1,190 22 April 1919 scrapped 1946 Bison French Navy: Guépard: Destroyer 2,398 10 October 1930
This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. T. Type 1934 destroyers (19 P) Type 1936 destroyers (2 C, 12 P) ... Type 1936B destroyer; Type 1936C ...
Operation Doppelschlag (Operation Double Blow/ Unternehmen Doppelschlag) was a German plan for a sortie in 1942 during the Second World War into the Arctic Ocean by the Kriegsmarine.
The convoy consisted of 25 merchant ships and was accompanied by one auxiliary, the oiler RFA Gray Ranger, which travelled with a destroyer escort.. The Close Escort was led by Commander John Crombie in the minesweeper HMS Bramble and consisted of two other minesweepers and four trawlers, joined later by four destroyers and the anti-aircraft ship HMS Ulster Queen.
The destroyer Leberecht Maass (Z1) was the first flotilla's designated flagship in 1939, later replaced by the Wilhelm Heidkamp (Z21) and then the Z28 in 1943. There were eight destroyer flotillas authorized by the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War, of which seven were eventually established.