Comments by "" (@walterkronkitesleftshoe6684) on "Extra History" channel.

  1. Unfortunately Piorun did NOT fire "everything she had" She was the only one of the 5 destroyers (HMS Cossack, Maori, Piorun, Sikh & Zulu) of the 4th destroyer flotilla that forgot to fire her main weapon, her torpedoes. Hats off to the Poles though for their eagerness to avenge their country's oppression.
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  2.  @thecreature916  The other four RN destroyers of the 5th flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) were too busy firing their main weapon at Bismarck (their 5 x 21 in torpedoes) to be signalling to the target.
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  3. Yes how DARE the Royal Navy sink a ship that had been tasked with wiping out unarmed international merchant shipping !!!!
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  4. Unfortuntely you're wrong. In May 1941 the world's largest operational battle ship was the Bismarck. The Yamato (& not the Japanese Admiral you've named above) was sat in a fitting out basin at the Kure Shipyard in Japan with half of her systems unfitted at the time these events were taking place. She was not commisioned until Dec 1941 when she joined the Japanese 1st battleship division. You can now consider yourself better informed.
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  5. Complete bollocks. Bismarck's crew actually scuttled a 51000 ton mountain of sinking, flaming scrap metal. All guns silenced, her superstructure devastated, her main armour belt broken and penetrated in several places, her command staff obliterated, internally aflame from end to end, her stern and port gunwales already underwater, a thousand of her crew dead, and further hundreds of her crew already in the water behind her.... All the scuttling did was to sink her a few minutes earlier than was already happening. In the world of boxing the crew's scuttling efforts are what is known as "throwing in the towel", submission of a boxer AFTER he has been punched senseless by a more skillful & powerful opponent, and only a deluded child would say, "the victor didn't win, his opponent gave in before he lost.", when the truth is the loser had his arse ripped off and handed back to him on a plate.
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  6. Please remember that other fairy stories are also available.
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  7. Not at the time of these events it wasn't. When Bismarck was patrolling the North Atlantic in May 1941, Yamato was sat in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyards in Japan, without her guns and a large part of her systems fitted. She was commisioned into the IJN in Dec 1941 6 months after these events. Therefore at the time these events took place Bismarck WAS the largest operational battleship in the world.
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  8. In May 1941 Bismarck was indeed the world's largest operational battleship. Yamato was at that time sitting in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyard in Southern Japan, minus half of her systems, and was not commisioned into service until December 1941.
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  9.  @matteodebelser1025  Yamato was far from completed in May 1941, and Bismarck WAS the world's largest battleship by displacement at the time these events were taking place.
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  10. Not in May 1941 they weren't.
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  11. To be precise, at the time of the events that this video describe Bismarck WAS the largest battleship in the world. Yamato was still in the dockyard being built.
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  12.  @Il_Principessa  Why would the RN dispatch a sub which is both slower and with less visual range than a surface ship to look for the "needle in the haystack"? The RN WAS the master of the world's oceans... the fact we controlled a GLOBAL empire with the world's largest navy attested to that. Apart from the USN and IJN there was no navy in the world that could challenge its pre-eminence at that time.
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  13. That would have been sunk as well.
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  14. They should have added the word "operational" to make the statement 100%% correct.
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  15. In May 1941 neither of the ships you mention were completed. So as "operational battleships" they were "jokes".
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  16. A very good introduction to the subject for those unfamiliar with the story. Those who wish to will read and view further to build up a more complete picture.
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  17. At the time these events were taking place, (May 1941) Bismarck WAS the largest operational battleship in the world. At the same time Yamato was sat in a "fitting out" basin in Kure Shipyards in Southern Japan without her main guns and many of her subsystems still unfitted. She only became operational in Dec 1941.
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  18.  @matteodebelser1025  Well if you're not bothered about the time element of history, forget Yamato.... The US Gerald R Ford class aircraft carriers are over 30,000 tons heavier than her.
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  19. At the time of its sinking it was the largest (by displacement) operational warship in the world.
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  20. Such is the way of humanity. Read about the Mongol, Khmer, Chinese, Malian, Aztec, Incan empires etc, and see how they too coveted their neighbours lands and resources over the millenia, and you'll also find that none of them were European.
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  21. But "She" suffices for 99.9% of the English speaking population.
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  22. And was still sat in the Kure shipyard uncompleted when these events were taking place.
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  23. the second one. Yamato wasn't operational until Dec 1941. (PS Isoroku Yamamoto was an admiral of the IJN)
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  24. In truth the 3 survivors rescued from Hood all stated afterwards that they saw no other men in the water before their rescue.
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  25. Complete bollocks. Bismarck's crew actually scuttled a 51000 ton mountain of sinking, flaming scrap metal. All guns silenced, her superstructure devastated, her main armour belt broken and penetrated in several places, her command staff obliterated, internally aflame from end to end, her stern and port gunwales already underwater, a thousand of her crew dead, and further hundreds of her crew already in the water behind her.... All the scuttling did was to sink her a few minutes earlier than was already happening. In the world of boxing the crew's scuttling efforts are what is known as "throwing in the towel", submission of a boxer AFTER he has been punched senseless by a more skillful & powerful opponent, and only a deluded child would say, "the victor didn't win, his opponent gave in before he lost.", when the truth is the loser had his arse ripped off and handed back to him on a plate.
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  26. What about the Glasgow street sweeper who lost his only son on the Hood? Or the Young wife from Liverpool with a young family to bring up alone, who lost her husband on the same ship? Or any of the other 1415 families who suffered the same grievous tragedy? ALL individual tragedies.
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  27. Your problem is that you seem to have utterly NO understanding of the enormity of the world's oceans. Try looking for a single "needle" of a ship in a 41 million square mile "haystack" of the North Atlantic ocean in the age before GPS, "over the horizon" radar and long range aircraft reconnaisance, and you'll understand why is was so difficult to find ships. If you look at a reasonably sized map of the Atlantic, then place a ball point pen "dot" in the middle of the ocean, that dot will give you a reasonable appreciation of the range of visual search from a ship in the world's seas.
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  28. I think you mean Mr Briggs was invited to take part in the programme, rather than the idea that he "kept showing up for TV interviews every time a new hour documentary was being produced".
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  29. At the time of its sinking Bismarck was the largest battleship in the world. Yamato which was the largest battleship of the entire war was not operational until 7 months after Bismarck's sinking.
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  30. No, you'll find that the Maharajahs and Mughals of India profitted handsomely from selling their subjects into British slavery.
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  31. And beyond "lies and BS" there is lack of knowledge. Yamato was not completed at the time of these events. If you're going to ignore the timeline then forget about Yamato, the US Aircraft carrier "USS Gerald R Ford" commisioned 5 years ago weighs in at over 100,000 tons.
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  32.  @ybet1000  It appears you're unaware of how ships are constructed, let me fill you in. A ship's hull is first completed and then launched to allow the shipyard to then use the slipway to start the construction of the next ship to be built (hence the "Launch date"). The hull that has been launched (without any superstructure or systems), is then manoeuvred by tugs into a "fitting out basin" where the rest of the ship is then built. So in the case of Yamato, her hull was launched in August 1940 (without her superstructure and guns), and she was finally completed and handed over to the IJN in Dec 1941, 7 months after Bismarck had been sunk.
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  33. Facts really are a problem for you aren't they? How's your Veyron with no engine, transmission or wheels?
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  34.  @poketuber2261  I take it as implicit that it means "at that time", but reasonable to believe that others who don't know the timeline could take it to mean "of all time". Call it a "score draw" eh? :)
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  35. I think the writers got a bit "carried away" themselves when they wrote that. You're right in saying Bismarck's 15in APC shells weighed 1,764 lbs. (800 kg), and Prinz Eugen's HE shells (which she fired right the way through the Denmark Strait engagement) weighed 269 lbs. (122 kg) possible to lift, but they would never have penetrated the armour surrounding PoW's magazines. The Germans also used their secondary weapons systems for part of the engagement, but once again they would not have the penetrating power to land in one of PoW's magazines.
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  36. Sad EMBRYONIC Yamato noises.
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  37. Whole story was a figment of the imagination of drunken Portsmouth sailors.
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  38. Wrong on BOTH accounts.
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  39. Aye, you're far better off learning history by reading and watching widely, than merely relying on the agenda filled syllabus now followed in western schools. Keep up the good work.
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  40. No.... the Fairey Swordfish were flying in thick cloud and the USCG Modoc was detected as a radar return by the Fairey Swordfish's pioneering airborne search radar. The squadron commander dropped below cloud cover to identify the contact, and correctly observed it was a neutral US ship, and therefore no attack was launched on it at all, but while he ID'ed the US ship he was spotted by Bismarck's crew which was only a few miles away and thereby lost the element of surprise in the subsequent Swordfish attack on Bismarck.
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  41. Not operational or even completed in May 1941.
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  42. The pilot you're referring to was Lt Cmd John Moffat, who because of his Scottish heritage was known as "Jock".
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  43. More gushing nonsense. Here's the real story. ORP Piorun was one of the 5 ships of the RN's 4th Destroyer Flotilla, the other British ships being HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu. The commander of the flottilla was Captain Philip Vian. On discovering that contact had been temporarily lost with Bismarck, Vian ordered his 5 destroyers to "fan out" and search for her. Purely by chance Piorun's search "finger" crossed Bismarck's path first. Ignoring Vian's orders to wait for all 5 to make a co-ordinated attack together, Piorun charged in alone to take part in a gun duel with Bismarck, Piorun's six 4.7 inch guns Vs Bismarck's eight 15 and twelve 6 inchers, Whilst simultaneously flashing its now famous signal "I AM A POLE". After Bismarck landed a couple of main gun straddles close to Piorun, Piorun withdrew and managed to lose contact with Bismarck, taking no further part in the action that carried on through the night of 26/27th May. Luckily the other 4 ships of the flotilla (Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) had now made it to the scene and then engaged Bismarck in unison, also with their 4.7 inch guns, but with the added tactic of synchronised torpedo attacks (Which Piorun had forgotten to use). In the rapidly falling light and difficult sea conditions the torpedo attacks are not thought to have landed any hits, but as you say the 4 remaining ships of the flotilla did engage Bismarck all night, and exhaust her crew.... while Piorun remained out of contact.
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  44. P.S HMS Cossack was sunk by a U-boat in Oct 1941, HMS Maori was sunk during axis air attacks on Valletta harbour in Malta in Feb 1942, While both HMS Sikh & Zulu were sunk by coastal artillaery during a commando raid on Tobruk in the Mediterranean in Sept 1942. Life on a WW2 destroyer was a dangerous affair.
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  45. Yes, a 51000 ton "wotan" steel pinata !!!
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  46. Yamato was not finished at the time of these events.
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  47.  @Random-CanadianStuff  Yamato was officially commisioned in Dec 1941.
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  48. Bletchley Park was FAR more than Alan Turing.
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  49. No, at the time this was happening the US Government was happy sitting on the side lines making MASSIVE profits by providing good and services to both sides, while her no 1 global competitor continued to bleed herself dry in single-handedly opposing European totalitarianism.
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  50.  @GhettoSmoshFan420  Calm down? what ARE you on about?
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  51. Not in May 1941 she wasn't.
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  52.  @AnikKasumi  At the time the events described in this video took place, Bismarck was the largest operational warship on the planet. It was another 7 months before Yamato took the crown from her.
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  53. Not at the time of these events it wasn't. When Bismarck was patrolling the North Atlantic in May 1941, Yamato was sat in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyards in Japan, without her guns or a large part of her systems fitted. She was commisioned into the IJN in Dec 1941 6 months after these events. Therefore at the time these events took place Bismarck WAS the largest operational battleship in the world.
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  54. That radio message was only a tiny fibre in the sinking of Bismarck. It merely confirmed what the British Admiralty already strongly suspected.
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  55. Tiny details but interesting.
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  56. But they WEREN'T surrendering.
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  57. Yamato wasn't completed at the time all this was happening.
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  58. Germany did not have the shipbuilding capacity (or the finances) to build 12 in a short space of time, and if they had attempted to build more, don't you think the rest of the world's navies would also have massively increased their shipbuilding? Thats why multiple naval treaties were signed internationally throughout the 1920s & 30s to avoid such a naval arms race.
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  59. Same physical dimensions, and virtually identical to Bismarck but slightly heavier due to some changes in her weapon & radar systems.
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  60. Which "war crime"?
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  61. What "clear signal to surrender" was that then?
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  62. Read more......
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  63. It was a tiny, relatively insignificant, though interesting side note. It didn't make the cut in this 9 minute video.
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  64. Amidst all the hullabaloo of the sailors "shouting polish insults while firing pistols" they forgot to use their most potent weapon, that is the 5 x 21in torpedoes that Piorun carried. She was the only destroyer of her flotilla of 5 ships that failed to use them.
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  65. So not much then. This series of videos is a good place to get the salient details.
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  66. Because its a minor unimportant footnote.
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  67. Not at the time of these events it wasn't.
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  68. Neither of which were operational at the time of these events.... if you're going to ignore the chronology, then just jump 80 years after these events and compare Bismarck to USS Gerald R Ford.
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  69. But just a one hour epic. The story of the other 4 RN destroyers in Piorun's flotilla is TRULY epic.
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  70. The three survivors all said that they never saw any other men in the water after the loss of the Hood. HMS Electra, one of the escorting destroyers that hours earlier had been sent north from Hood & PoW to seek out the Bismarck, raced back to the scene of Hood's sinking, with hundreds of blankets, her galley and medical crews working flat out to prepare for a flood of frozen and injured men, and with bowlines ready to haul up hundreds of survivors, arrived to find flotsam and nothing else, after a period of searching, she found the three sailors near to death huddled on a raft.
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  71. Indeed..... 7 months after Bismarck was sunk.
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  72.  @ankitait2  Ah so what we're seeing is your own uninformed personal hatred for the UK... and nothing to do with historical reality. Maybe you'd have preferred rule by nazism with its attendant being herded into gas chambers and all that as opposed to being sold into the slavery of the British aristocracy by your own Mughals and Maharajas. Grow up lad, don't be a clueless child all your life.
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  73. She was in all truthfulness an inconsequential minor footnote in the saga.
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  74. To prevent the same tourist circus and commercial pilfering that has plagued Titanic since its discovery.
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  75. How dare you write 4 RN destroyers completely out of history. ORP Piorun was a member of the 4th Destroyer Flotilla comprised of HMS Cossack, Maori, ORP Piorun, Sikh & Zulu and commanded by Captain Philip Vian, ALL of whom engaged the Bismarck during the night of 26/27th May.
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  76. Why just Piorun? Why not the rest of the destroyer flotilla that kept Bismarck at action stations all night (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu), whereas Piorun withdrew and lost contact after her hour long gun duel.
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  77. That's what we use.
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  78. How bizarre. Have you had a bad experience with them?
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  79.  @emodarkstalker001weir7  If by "Just begun" you mean 21 months earlier. Silly American song.
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  80. Please provide us with the details of the luftwaffe air assaults on Canberra, Ottawa, Delhi and Wellington? Or how the Wehrmacht stood poised to launch its invasion of the Indian sub continent or the British west African colonies? Or how the Kriegsmarine attempted to strangle the British Empire out of the war by enforcing a u-boat blockade of Australia and New Zealand? Oh news just coming in...... NONE OF THOSE THINGS HAPPENED because the ONLY nation facing ALL of those threats between July 1940 and April 1941 was the United Kingdom ALONE. The Commonwealth was in 1940 mostly a distant vocal supporter. The defence of the UK in 1940 was maintained by 95% British troops and citizens. It was another year or more before the commonwealth contribution in Europe REALLY began to kick in.
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  81.  @rappakalja5295  The colonies played almost no part in the defence of the UK in 1940/41. It's quite simple. Just to detail the commonwealth units in Britain in Sept 1940. The 1st Canadian infantry Division was stationed south of London around the Leatherhead area in Surrey, the 2nd Canadian division at the time was a skeletal force whose poorly equipped subordinate units had only started to arrive in Britain in late august 1940 and was in no condition for combat. Then there was the "2nd Australian Imperial Force" (Australforce) which though nominally comprised of 2 infantry brigades (the 18th & 25th) actually only had the combined strength of a single 8000 man Brigade stationed outside Basingstoke, and finally the "2nd New Zealand Expeditionary force" a grand sounding title that hid the fact that it was comprised of solely the NZ 2nd infantry division which was itself comprised of 2 understrength infantry Brigades (5th & 7th NZ Inf Brigades). Its two understrength brigades were bolstered by the addition of the BRITISH 1st motor machine gun brigade and was stationed near to Maidstone in Kent. By the time of the expected invasion in Sept 1940 the British army was fielding 2 British Armoured divisions 2 British independent Armoured tank brigades 15 British infantry divisions (full strength) 7 British infantry divisions (under strength). 7 British independent infantry Brigades 2 British motor machine gun Brigades 1 Canadian infantry division (full strength) (plus some small under equipped subordinate units of a 2nd division) 1 NZ infantry "division" (actually 2 understrength infantry Brigades but with an attached British motor machine gun brigade) 2 Australian infantry brigades (under strength & unequipped) In addition to these forces were the 1,500,000 million British men of the "Home Guard". As you can see, as well as being the ONLY country being threatened by nazism from July 1940 to April 1941, the defence of the UK was a +95% British affair at this early stage of the war. It was in the following years AFTER 1940 that the size of the British Commonwealth forces in Europe really started to grow. Glad to have been of help in unburdening you of your misunderstanding in regard of this topic.
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  82. She was too busy profitting from both sides.
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  83. Britain: But first let us blow you to smithereens.
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  84. Well, attempting to starve the population of the UK into submission was more of their objective.
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  85. As did the other 4 destroyers of her flotilla, those being HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu.
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  86. Bismarck's crew actually scuttled a 51000 ton mountain of sinking, flaming scrap metal. All guns silenced, her superstructure devastated, her main armour belt broken in several places along her port side, her command staff obliterated, internally aflame from end to end, her stern and port gunwales already underwater, a thousand of her crew dead, and further hundreds of her crew already in the water behind her.... All the scuttling did was to sink her a few minutes earlier than was already happening. In the world of boxing the crew's scuttling efforts are what is known as "throwing in the towel", submission of a boxer when he has been punched senseless by a more skillful & powerful opponent, and only a deluded child would say, "the loser wasn't beaten, he gave in before he was annihilated.", when the truth is the loser had his arse ripped off and handed back to him on a plate. Maybe stick to Roblox... historical accuracy doesn't seem to be your strong point.
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  87. But due to the very short triangulation baseline of the Y service listening stations back in Britain, completely understandable.
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  88. You actually mean Globalist NATO Vs Russia
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  89. Yamato was not fully "made" when this was happening.
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  90. Likewise Bismarck herself 3 days later.
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  91. What 15000 ft under the N Atlantic? Other fairy stories are also available.
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  92. At the time of its sinking Bismarck WAS the largest operational battleship on the planet.
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  93. Other fairy stories are also available.
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  94. U-74 searched the area of the sinking and rescued 3 survivors in a raft at 8 o'clock in the evening (Bismarck had sunk at 10.37 that morning) . The following day 5 u-boats searched the area and found only dead bodies, but at midnight on the 28th (the day after the sinking) the German weather reporting ship "Sachsenwald" spotted a flare and rescued a final 2 sailors in a raft. That area was again searched the following day by the u-boats (and were also joined by a Spanish heavy cruiser the "Canarias"), but no more survivors were found. The rescues were as follows HMS Dorsetshire - 86 (although 1 sailor died the following day from his wounds) HMS Maori - 25 U-74 - 3 Sachsenwald - 2 For a grand total of 116 rescued but 115 survivors. (The wikipedia page is inaccurate on this point, as well as many others).
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  95. "Swordfish, obsolete, garbage and fragile" and yet the "stringbag" finished WW2 with the LARGEST total of enemy shipping sunk by a WW2 naval aircraft.
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  96. Always more difficult to sink something that runs or hides away.
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  97.  @c00lkitty  oh you ARE an enigma, aren't you?
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  98. If by "just begun" you mean 20 months earlier, that's correct.
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  99.  @WillyHWonka  I know..... An american singing using the collective "we" about when the British were fighting for the survival of democracy in Europe, while the Americans sold supplies to BOTH sides of the conflict.
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  100. ORP Piorun "annoyed the Germans" for around 1 hour before losing contact with Bismarck in the darkness, it was the other destroyers of her flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) which harried Bismarck for the WHOLE night.
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  101. The wreckage of her bridge would have sheared off due to the drag of hydrodynamic forces as she plummetted 17000ft to the sea floor.
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  102. indeed, same as the US. Many of their early WW2 tanks also had bolted armour.
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  103. There is no shortage of those who while personable and even charming on the outside while inwardly salivating at the thought of power... it really is a drug, quite often for narcissistic psychopaths, such as Justin Trudeau.
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  104. Or indeed lose contact with Bismarck after an hour while the other 4 destroyers of her flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) continued to engage Bismarck throughout the rest of the night.
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  105. The ship was USCG Modoc, she was a part of the US Neutrality Patrol, and she wasn't "nearly attacked" as the vid suggests. The Swordfish from HMS Victorious, which were carrying the world's first naval air to surface radar, were flying in cloud, the squadron leader's telegraphist alerted him to a contact, and the leader, Eugene Esmond dropped below cloud base to ID the contact. He immediately recognised it as a neutral, but as he "eyeballed" the Modoc, his aircraft was spotted by lookouts on the Bismarck which was a number of miles away, and so lost the element of surprise in the Swordfish's attack on Bismarck.
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  106. Hood's deck WAS armoured. 3 inch thick, compared to Bismarck's 4.
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  107. If Bismarck had attempted to pursue PoW she would not have made it as far as she did.
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  108. How?
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  109. That's exactly what Lütjens attempted to do.
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  110. Piorun engaged Bismarck for 1 hour before withdrawing. It was the other 4 destroyers from her flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) that engaged Bismarck all night, keeping her crew at action stations and leaving them even more exhausted and demoralised for the following morning's showdown.
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  111. As did the other 4 destroyers of her flotilla, those being HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu.
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  112. Where was the "surrender"? Her battle standard was still flying high as she capsized. I think more of the thousands of unarmed merchant sailor's lives that were saved by Bismarck's destruction.... she was after all only interested in destroying unarmed merchant shipping. It would have been better if she'd stayed in port all her life like her "sister".
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  113. Wrong.
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  114. NO, you mean implacable.
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  115. Its likely that the remainder of Bismarck's crew did scuttle her, BUT what they scuttled was a devastated 51000 ton mountain of flaming, sinking scrap metal. All guns silenced, her superstructure devastated, her main armour belt broken and penetrated in several places, her command staff physically obliterated, internally aflame from end to end, her stern and port gunwales already underwater, a thousand of her crew dead, and further hundreds of her crew already in the water behind her.... All that any scuttling did was to sink her a few minutes earlier than was already happening.
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  116. Though they were each given a weeks home leave before returning to active service... no "safe spaces" back then.... Just heroic effort.
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  117. Not in May 1941 she wasn't.
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  118. And indeed the other 4 destroyers of the 4th destroyer flotilla (HMS Cossack, Maori, Sikh & Zulu) who engaged Bismarck for the WHOLE of the night of the 25/27th May 1941.
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  119. Not ANOTHER delusional?
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  120. Hood was Longer. But Bismarck was larger both in beam and displacement.
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  121.  @ybet1000  9 months prior to Bismarck's sinking there was a HULL of a larger ship without any superstructure or weapons fitted, floating in a fitting out basin in Kure shipyards in Japan. Let's set Bismarck against that floating empty hull and lets see who wins shall we? You'll find that even at the time of Bismarck's sinking, Yamato was not in any way, shape or form a "working" battleship. You seem to have trouble with chronology. As I said in my original reply, if you're going to ignore the timeline then forget Yamato, MANY ships very much larger than her have been built since. But if you take chronology into account, then at the time of her sortie into the Atlantic then Bismarck WAS the largest battleship in the world. Lets have a car race..... I'll set my functional 1930's Austin A7 against your Bugatti Veyron, but your Veyron is one that has been taken off the production line before completion, without an engine, transmission or wheels.... which one is the "car" and which is not?
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  122.  @ybet1000  But there WASN'T a ship twice it's size already launched... and you coming out with that fallacy doesn't make it true. You stated the video was talking BS, and as it turns out, it wasn't. Sorry you don't seem to be able to handle being wrong.
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  123. Yamato wasn't "in the chat" in May 1941.
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  124.  @poketuber2261  Where does it say that?
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  125.  @poketuber2261  Re-read my post.... Yamato was NOT in the "chat" in MAY 1941, havng been commisioned into the IJN in December 1941 (in case you're confused that's SEVEN months AFTER Bismarck had been sunk)
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  126. The fact it is mentioned at all is surprising. She engaged Bismarck for just one hour and forgot to use her torpedoes. The other four destroyers of her flotilla engaged Bismarck for the entire night before the final battle. Can you name ANY of the other 4 RN destroyers?
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  127. But forgetting to use her most powerful weapon, her five 21" torpedoes.... and them getting lost in the darkness and losing Bismarck.
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  128. HSwMS Gotland, a seaplane cruiser built in 1933, and finally scrapped in 1963.
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  129. Not really.
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  130. It wasn't a 45 minute "happy birthday" message. Lütjens had many operational matters to discuss with naval high command onshore, though he also felt the need to make long report on the Denmark Strait engagement and was finally told by the naval high command to finish his report as they were aware from British radio traffic that the RN had lost contact with Bismarck, which Lütjens had not suspected.
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  131. While the standard of MSM documentaries has dropped through the floor in the last 15-20 years, there is some utterly FANTASTIC content created online that ranks amongst the finest coverage of historical events.... you just have to be discerning in what you choose to watch on YT, there's plenty of rubbish out there as well obviously.
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