The next day, five Martin NBS-1 bombers each dropped a 1,100-pound bomb on the German battleship, scoring three more hits and causing the ship to sink even further. NBS-1 bombers returned with their ...

Next was the German battleship Ostfriesland, considered “unsinkable” due to its extensive compartmentalization. After a day of 230- and 600-pound bombs dropped by Marine, Navy, and Army aircraft, the ...

Three divers plan to descend nearly 400 feet in the Atlantic off Cape Charles Friday morning to explore a captured German battleship that was sent to the bottom 69 years ago in a bombing demonstration ...