Prinz Eugen
Books
- Two Bombs at Bikini Operation Crossroads and the Birth of the Nuclear Age · Liszt Think
In July 1946, the U.S. Navy assembled ninety target ships and forty-two thousand men at Bikini Atoll to test atomic weapons against a fleet. What followed was a collision of military ambition and invisible peril.
- A Fleet of Ghosts…e attack transports Niagara and Fillmore. The landing ships LST-133 and LST-545. The Japanese vessels Nagato and Sakawa. The German cruiser Prinz Eugen. Each ship had a history. Each ship had a purpose now. The Prinz Eugen had served in the German Navy, surviving the war only to be taken as…
- The Unwilling Pioneers of Rongerik…orange for visibility, held the aiming point. Japanese battleship Nagato, captured prize of the Pacific War, waited nearby. German cruiser Prinz Eugen, taken from the defeated Kriegsmarine, floated in the lagoon. Aircraft carrier Saratoga, veteran of a hundred Pacific operations, stood rea…
- Admiral Blandy’s Fleet of Intended Ruin…o the victors, her crew replaced by American sailors who had painted her gray and stripped her of anything useful. The German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen had also been assigned to the target fleet, a prize of war that had survived the collapse of Nazi Germany. American engineers had studied h…