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...three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain's largest warship, the 42,100-ton Hood; fought off one of Britain's newest and mightiest, the Prince of Wales. The fight lasted only 300 seconds; took place last Saturday morning in Denmark Strait between Greenland and Iceland...
...hours later the Bismarck went down fighting after the briefest and wildest career of any modern battleship. With all the available sea power of Britain mobilized to intercept her before she could get back to her base, Berlin announced just after midnight Tuesday morning that for four hours the Bismarck had been "again engaged in a heavy fight with superior British naval units." Early Tuesday morning, the Bismarck radioed that she had been incapacitated, but "we will fight to the last hand grenade." And the last message before the Bismarck sank at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning said: "Ship...
...Britain's battleships that sank the Bismarck. It was the fleet air arm. And so, paradoxically, the speedy sinking of the Bismarck gave little cheer to those who wish to believe that Britain's navy is mistress of the seas. On the contrary, it was reserved for the pride of Hitler's navy to prove for the first time that even the mightiest unescorted battleship cannot long withstand an aerial attack. And in the air, Germany has all the advantage...
France still has one battleship, 13 cruisers, some 20 destroyers and some 50 submarines...
...good, exciting bit of British propaganda. Like "The Lion Has Wings," it doesn't care much about plot, but concentrates on proving that all Englishmen are gentlemen and that the British Navy is supreme. The sequences of a naval battle between a British cruiser and a German pocket battleship are especially good...