Who Sank the Bismarck?
Bismarck, Explorers Revise The Story he Bismarck was the world’s most feared warship, a Nazi superweapon meant to sever the convoy lifeline that kept Britain alive in World War II. Its guns could fire one-ton shells 24 miles. So upon its debut in 1941, the British responded with everything they had. Resolve grew steely after the Bismarck destroyed the Hood, considered Britain’s finest ship, killing all but 3 of its 1,415 men. “Sink the Bismarck!” became the battle cry. After being pursued by a fleet of British ships and aircraft, and constant pounding by shells and torpedoes, the Bismarck went down in 3 miles of water, 600 miles off the coast of France, on May 27, 1941. It was the eighth day of the warship’s first mission. The victory became a monument of British pride and, in time, a hit film, a popular song and a small industry of Bismarck books and television shows. There is just one problem. New evidence, detailed in interviews, videotapes and photographs, suggests that the story i
