A star of movies and television in the late 1950s and '60s made his first featured performance before a large audience in Bismarck on Aug. 16, 1956. Following a three-page spread in Life magazine, the ...
Lest we forget, Sink the Bismarck was based on the 1959 historical novel Hunting the Bismarck by C.S.Forester. Forester made no pretense about it being anything more than a novel.
Re: Bismarck at DS after the second turn by Antonio Bonomi » Wed 4:17 am
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Anyway, with Dumas or without it I regard that, if Bismarck and Tirpitz were clearly superior to the USN Treaty battleships it will be next to impossible for the french vessels to be superior to thosse German ships.
Bismarck straddled Rodney at 3rd salvo, around 8:51, causing minor splinter damage, followed by an immediate course alteration performed by Rodney (slightly to the N-E), and by KGV (slightly to the S-E).
Re: Bismarck and her contemporaries by Bgile » Wed 5:50 pm There seems to always be a significant number of duds when heavy armor is encountered. However, a dud can sometimes be even more damaging than a bullet which explodes. For example, suppose a shell failed to explode and instead was deflected through the bottom of the ship?
The concern is that the same could happen with the wreck of Bismarck or any other sunken ship in the future. I am all in favour of exploring the debris field, on a look but don't touch basis, ie. without looting. But until international law is clarified on this the motives of future expeditions inevitably comes into question.