Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser Blücher on sea trials. Her career was short. The destruction of the Kriegsmarine’s Hipper-class superheavy cruiser Blucher before the dawn of the first day of Operation Weserübung on 9 April 1940 was, without any doubt, an incredible feat of arms for the Norwegian coastal defenses at Fort Oscarborg in Oslo. I mean, who would have bet on a couple of old guns and a shore-mounted torpedo battery manned by a skeleton crew of reservists against a 16.000-ton ultra-modern cruiser which had only completed her shakedown three months prior? Well, a new movie is inbound (in theaters and on digital July 3) covering the clash, and it looks great. You can tell that the folks behind it watched the Blucher vs Oscarborg scene in 2016’s The King’s Choice and were like, “wait, let’s take the best two minutes of that movie and make it two hours, because that’s what people really want to see.” And they are probably correct!
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