Sink the Bismarck!
Movie (1960)
French title : Coulez le Bismarck !
Starring:
Kenneth More (Captain Jonathan Shepard)
Dana Wynter (WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis)
Laurence Naismith (First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound)
Geoffrey Keen (Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff)
(Synopsis needed)
Supermarine Spitfire
First an archive footage with a Spitfire Mk V of No 501 Sqn ...
... which becomes a bubble top mark (Mk XVI or Mk XVIII or Mk 22 for example).
Fairey Swordfish
First flights are search and exploration ones.
Another inaccuracy : no Swordfish was lost to ennemy fire.
Last takeoff loaded with torpedo.
Consolidated PBY Catalina
The Bismarck was found again by a Consolidated PBY Catalina of the Coastal Command when he was en route to Brest, France.
Identification Chart
1 : Focke-Wulf Fw 200;
2 : Blohm & Voss BV 138.
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