Images

A photograph of an Avro Lancaster bomber during the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in England, 2018.

A photograph of HMS Dorsetshire picking up survivors after the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941 in the Atlantic. Only 110 men survived from a crew of over 2,000. (Imperial War Museums, London)

A colourised photograph of the British battle cruiser HMS Hood. The ship was the most famous vessel in the Royal Navy in the years before the Second World War. Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in May 1941.

A photograph of Admiral Günter Lütjens (1889-1941) taken in April 1940 just before he embarked on Operation Rheinübung onboard the German battleship Bismarck. (German Federal Archives)

A c. 1939 photograph of the British aircraft carrier Ark Royal and its Swordfish biplanes. (U.S. Navy photo NH 79167 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command)

A colourised version of a 1940 photograph of the German battleship Bismarck at sea. The ship was sunk in action in May 1941 in the Atlantic. (German Federal Archives)

A stern view of the German battleship Bismarck which saw action and was sunk in 1941. (German Federal Archives)

A map showing the route taken by the German battleship Bismarck prior to its sinking in May 1941.

North American barn owl in flight.

The Desert Cottontail Rabbit, found in the western regions of the United States.