Viking Sword from Kilmainham, Dublin dated to the 9th Century on display at the National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology in Dublin
The blade of this sword is heavily corroded and missing the tip however the cross guard and pommel have survived. The are constructed of intricate castings of gilt-copper alloy formed upon a core of iron. The copper matrix is interwoven with silver rings and wires.
It is unusual to find this design so early in Ireland but it bears similarity to the sword hilt found at the Isle of Eigg in the Western Isles of Scotland and to swords found in Norway and Finland. This would suggest it, like others, were imported from Scandinavia rather than made in the Viking colonies in the British Isles.
Soviet T-34/85’s of Marshal Malinovsky’s Third Ukrainian Front go in to action west of Odessa - April 1944. During the Russian offensive, in the first four months of 1944 Soviet forces drove German forces back to the Carpathians and almost to the borders of Poland
24 May 1941, Battle of the Denmark Strait, color footage of the German battleship Bismarck firing at the British battlecruiser HMS Hood and battleship HMS Prince of Wales, as captured from the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.
Return fire from both warships can be seen splashing around the German warship, and by the end of the footage Prince of Wales can be seen steaming ahead of the remains of Hood, which exploded after a single hit from Bismarck detonated one of her magazines, sinking less than 10 minutes into the battle.
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