Loki Loc: Georgia

Today in history, in 1941, the Royal Navy cornered and sunk the unsinkable Bismarck, at the time the most powerful battleship in the world.

Liberty Tree

The old movie about it was really good.

Loki Loc: Georgia

One of the Navy vets here suggested I post more naval trivia when I do these "Today in History" things.
I take it the movie you meant was "Sink the Bismarck"?

Liberty Tree

Yes, I thought it was well done. It showed the mindset of both sides and the determination to get the job done.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

The Bismark was formidable. If the Brits had not sunk it. The Navies of the world would have been destroyed. We could have been a German territory. Sinking the Bismark sunk Germanys ambition to control the worlds oceans.

Loki Loc: Georgia

As a matter of fact, the Japanese battleship Yamato was commissioned the same year as the Bismarck and was even larger and more heavily armed. We sunk that one with carrier based aircraft. You might note that the Bismarck's steering was badly damaged by an aerial attack and her manuverability destroyed before she was engaged by British warships. She could not use her superior speed because her rudder was ruined and she could not steer. The battle would have had a different outcome had she been one hundred percent. WWII proved that battleships no longer ruled the ocean, aircraft carriers did. Naval task forces became built around aircraft carriers, and their bodyguard of destroyers and other sub and mine h****rs.

BearK Loc: TN

Sink The Bismarck - Johnny Horton

I thought you might like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ufc2hI4FM

Loki Loc: Georgia

Thank you. I have not heard that in a long time. I had forgotten.