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  • Thumbnail for German battleship Bismarck
    The first struck her in the forecastle above the waterline but low enough to allow the crashing waves to enter the hull. The second shell struck below the...
    89 KB (11,814 words) - 07:53, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for German battleship Scharnhorst
    15.9 mi). The shell struck the carrier's upper hangar and started a large fire. Less than ten minutes later, a shell from Gneisenau struck the bridge and...
    65 KB (8,598 words) - 20:18, 18 June 2024
  • troops were stationed. One person was killed after a falling military shell struck him. Three more people were discovered wounded on the street, two of...
    4 KB (333 words) - 05:10, 20 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Barham (04)
    struck by a single shell splinter before the Allies broke off the bombardment at 10:07, although she had hit Barham once with a 155 mm (6.1 in) shell...
    61 KB (8,571 words) - 20:21, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Kyiv (2022)
    Massacre. A Russian airstrike also struck and damaged an occupied maternity clinic. Further Russian shelling struck the neighborhoods of Rusanivka and...
    90 KB (6,461 words) - 17:53, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shell plc
    Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on...
    214 KB (19,075 words) - 18:13, 23 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of the Denmark Strait
    Iceland. Less than 10 minutes after the British opened fire, a shell from Bismarck struck Hood near her aft ammunition magazines. Soon afterwards, Hood...
    58 KB (7,886 words) - 05:41, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Prince of Wales (53)
    and destroyed her with salvoes of 8- and 15-inch shells. An 8-inch shell hit the boat deck and struck a ready service locker for ammunition, and a fire...
    48 KB (5,670 words) - 15:47, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for French battleship Jean Bart (1940)
    07:37, another 406 mm shell hit the ship, passing through the funnel and striking the edge of the armor deck. Another shell struck the edge of the quay...
    44 KB (6,163 words) - 12:16, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for SMS Derfflinger
    shell from Seydlitz struck Lion and knocked out two of her dynamos. At 11:18, two of Derfflinger's 12 in (30 cm) shells hit Lion, one of which struck...
    50 KB (6,395 words) - 11:00, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Big Bertha (howitzer)
    shelling forts XIV, XV and XVI. On 16 August, German infantry stormed forts XV and XVI as the artillery bombarded them. A 42-centimetre shell struck German...
    31 KB (4,340 words) - 19:12, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for SMS Seydlitz
    during the Battle of Dogger Bank, a 13.5 in (34.3 cm) shell from the British battlecruiser Lion struck Seydlitz's rearmost turret and nearly caused a magazine...
    69 KB (9,200 words) - 12:58, 2 February 2024
  • May 2024, Gaza emergency services reported that four tank artillery shells struck a tent city in the Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone west of Rafah, hitting...
    17 KB (1,436 words) - 19:27, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for American Samoa
    and fired about 15 shells from its 5.5-inch deck gun at the U.S. Naval Station Tutuila over the next 10 minutes. The first shell struck the rear of Frank...
    173 KB (17,003 words) - 19:34, 17 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for French battleship Bretagne
    resulting flooding limited the explosion's effect on the ship. The second shell struck above the waterline, and detonated in the centre engine room, killing...
    26 KB (3,313 words) - 15:15, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gallipoli campaign
    torpedoes. HMS Ocean was sent to rescue Irresistible but was disabled by a shell, struck a mine and was evacuated, eventually sinking. The French battleships...
    156 KB (18,392 words) - 17:30, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Belfast
    fire while engaging an artillery battery on Wolsa-ri island. A 75 mm shell struck a forward compartment, killing a British sailor of Chinese origin in...
    70 KB (8,047 words) - 05:15, 16 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for German cruiser Blücher
    alignment, but Blücher had four more major rangefinders. The second 28 cm shell struck near the aircraft hangar and started a major fire. As the fire spread...
    25 KB (2,939 words) - 11:49, 20 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rohingya genocide
    high school students. On 9 March 2024, a Myanmar Police Force artillery shell struck the Aung Mingalar district of Sittwe. Five Rohingya were killed, and...
    176 KB (17,305 words) - 14:44, 22 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Downing Street mortar attack
    Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched three homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the headquarters of the British government...
    17 KB (1,751 words) - 23:06, 2 June 2024
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