The Shocking Story of How Nazi Germany's Super Battleship Really Sank

[DemolitionMan]

Warfare History Network

In 1960 Twentieth Century Fox released the film Sink the Bismarck! Based on C.S. Forrester’s bestselling book The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck, the documentary-style film tells a gripping and reasonably factual account of the most famous sea chase in history.

In an early scene, German Fleet Admiral Günther Lütjens addresses the crew of the battleship as they head out to the Atlantic. With the typically bellicose posturing usually portrayed in American war films, Lütjens proclaims, “Officers and men of the Bismarck! This is the fleet commander.

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-story-how-the-nazis-super-battleship-really-sank-22698

[DemolitionMan]

The Bismark scored a direct hit against the HMS Hood. The Hood was the pride of the Royal Navy. Only three sailors survived the Hood Explosion. Apparently, one of the shells from the Bismark struck the magazine of the Hood.

[DemolitionMan]

The Bismark scored a direct hit against the HMS Hood. The Hood was the pride of the Royal Navy. Only three sailors survived the Hood Explosion. Apparently, one of the shells from the Bismark struck the magazine of the Hood.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMohVNaeP6s

HMS Hood 'For Years Unseen' - How HMS Hood’s bell came home

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What a ridiculous article.

The title is encapsulated in this sentence:

The Royal Navy scraped together every available ship, and in the end, by the sheerest luck and steadfast determination, two Royal Navy battleships finally turned Bismarck into a flaming wreck.

...and it's not even fully correct, as it ignores the fact that air power was mainly what allowed the battleships to sink it.