<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" id="mw4w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="World War II">World War II</a>: The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" id="mw5A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a> defeats the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsmarine" id="mw5Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kriegsmarine">Kriegsmarine</a> at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Barents_Sea" id="mw5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of the Barents Sea">Battle of the Barents Sea</a>. This leads to the resignation of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Admiral" id="mw5w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Grand Admiral">Grand Admiral</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Raeder" id="mw6A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Erich Raeder">Erich Raeder</a> a month later.<sup about="#mwt95" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_31#cite_note-16" id="mw6Q" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mw6g">[16]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"><cite about="#mwt92" class="citation web cs1" id="CITEREFKappes">Kappes, Irwin. <a class="external text" href="https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/articles/feature5.html" id="mwB-g" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The Battle of the Barents Sea"</a>. <i id="mwB-k">www.german-navy.de</i>. <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211006170208/https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/articles/feature5.html" id="mwB-o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">Archived</a> from the original on 2021-10-06<span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwB-s">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwB-w">2021-12-31</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt92" class="Z3988" id="mwB-0" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=www.german-navy.de&amp;rft.atitle=The+Battle+of+the+Barents+Sea&amp;rft.aulast=Kappes&amp;rft.aufirst=Irwin&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.german-navy.de%2Fkriegsmarine%2Farticles%2Ffeature5.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+31"></span></span>