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Originally Posted by 95th Rifleman
HMS Hood was taken down by a single shell to her magazine. Plunging shot went straight through her wooden deck.
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Hood was a battlecruiser so thats no suprise. I can see the rational behind the Royal Navy sending the Hood to track Bismarck and Prinz Eugen as she could do 31kts at flank speed, but what a waste of human life ordering her to take on a powerful modern battleship like Bismarck. The whole battlecruiser concept had been exposed at Jutland in 1916, and was totaly obsolete by WW2 with the rapid development of aircraft since WW1.