On the last day of 1942 powerful elements of the vaunted German Kreigsmarine suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a Royal Navy squadron that was vastly its inferior in tonnage and firepower. It was a major watershed in the war at sea during the Second World War, ending forever the grandiose ambitions of Nazi Germany's surface fleet.
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On the last day of 1942 powerful elements of the vaunted German Kreigsmarine suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of a Royal Navy squadron that was vastly its inferior in tonnage and firepower. It was a major watershed in the war at sea during the Second World War, ending forever the grandiose ambitions of Nazi Germany's surface fleet.