Japanese Were Shocked When Americans Strafed Their 3,000 Convoy Survivors Discover the shocking truth about the Battle of the Bismarck Sea (March 2-4, 1943), when American and Australian forces destroyed an entire Japanese convoy and controversially strafed thousands of survivors in the water, marking one of World War II's most decisive yet morally complex aerial victories. This meticulously researched documentary explores how General George Kenney's Fifth Air Force revolutionized warfare with s

A German weather ship and a submarine rescued five survivors from the sinking of the battleship Bismarck after British ships had to leave the area due to a perceived U-boat threat. The initial British rescue efforts by the heavy cruiser HMS Dorsetshire and the destroyer HMS Maori were halted, leaving the survivors in the water. The German submarine U-74 rescued three men, and the weather ship Sachsenwald picked up two more the following day, bringing the total number of survivors to 115. British