Throughout the Second World War, Hitler’s U-boats and pocket battleships – particularly the dreaded Bismarck and Tirpitz – were a constant threat to Allied shipping.
The USS Texas proudly saw combat in both World Wars I and II, and since 1948 has been preserved in her namesake state as memorial to American servicemen.
First conceived in the mid-1930s, the Type VII was still in production in the closing stages of the Second World War a decade later. Subject to continuous improvement through six major variants and with around 650 completed,