sinking the bismark

[greencobra]

found this youtube video of the pilots, gunners and observers from the swordfish squadron that took part in the attack damaging the bismarck that led to its eventual sinking, giving an oral account of their attack. pretty interesting if you like this stuff. and dry sometimes in true british fashion. it's a little long, ~33 minutes.


View: https://youtu.be/gHwKZX5SllI

 

[Picton]

Or? The shorter, catchier version!

 

[CRSIII]

Pic beat me to it!

 

[tuna]

As soon as I saw the title I had the song in my head. Thanks a lot

 

[Dennis in MA]

More hours have been spent on documentaries of sinking the Bismarck than hours spent actually sinking the Bismarck.

 

[Maxrobot]

The crew of the Fairy Swordfish were squeezed in. the guy in the middle was to work the wireless and navigate. All while exposed to the 140 mph North Atlantic wind. It was an open cockpit plane.

 

[Maxrobot]

One .303 Vickers gun in the front Starboard side and a Lewis gun in back. bundle up for the North Atlantic! (Note - I think it was a Vickers K-gun in the back. Froma any distance, they resemble a Lewis gun.)

 

[Dennis in MA]

Vickizz??? He always felt that Wood drastically underestimated the social distinctions predicated on wealth. LOL.

 

[Zappa]

As soon as I saw the title I had the song in my head. Thanks a lot

I really like that song, but the lyric's "guns as big as steers and shells as big as trees" sounds backwards.
Doesn't "shells as big as steers and guns as big as trees" make more sense ???

 

[tuna]

I always figured Johnny Horton was drunk.

I like Battle of New Orleans much better.

 

[mibro]

The crew of the Fairy Swordfish were squeezed in. the guy in the middle was to work the wireless and navigate. All while exposed to the 140 mph North Atlantic wind. It was an open cockpit plane.

Fairey Swordfish. With an i.

 

[PDB]

I always figured Johnny Horton was drunk.

I like Battle of New Orleans much better.

 

[enbloc]

 

[whacko]

Or? The shorter, catchier version!

Brings back memories of my dad. He had a Johnny Horton 8 track and play it on Saturday afternoons.

 

[Roof gunner]

Brings back memories of my dad. He had a Johnny Horton 8 track and play it on Saturday afternoons.

Holy smokes my father to !! In 1814 we took a little trip.......

 

[whacko]

Holy smokes my father to !! In 1814 we took a little trip.......

Along with colonel Jackson down the mighty missip

 

[JuergenG]

A bit more serious

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxq4efUsDf4

 

[Picton]

Brings back memories of my dad. He had a Johnny Horton 8 track and play it on Saturday afternoons.

Holy smokes my father to !! In 1814 we took a little trip.......

Mine too!

 

[paulleve]

And I thought I was the only one who listened to Johnny Horton as a kid! These are the two 45s my Dad played to death when I was little. Somewhere around here I have a few of the Snoopy vs. The Red Baron songs that were also in constant rotation.

 

[facecrime]

That is the song, girls cry when Titanic sinks, boys cry when Bismarck does

 

[whacko]

That is the song, girls cry when Titanic sinks, boys cry when Bismarck does

 

[BigTimber]

Donitz wanted 300 uboats Instead but Hitler went with that stupid thing, thankfully, or the world may look quite different today.

 

[Dennis in MA]

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Ich Bein Ein Creamfilled Jellydonut?

 

[Choctaw]

One .303 Vickers gun in the front Starboard side and a Lewis gun in back. bundle up for the North Atlantic!

I was stationed on a small frigate. One day while we were tied up to the pier a young lad requested permission to come aboard to deliver a message to our captain. While waiting for someone to come up to receive the message the kid panicked because our ship rocked a little with the incoming tide. He screamed "Are we sinking??"

After assuring him that we were quite safe I asked what ship he was stationed on. He was from an aircraft carrier. He went on to say that he just got orders to a small wooden mine sweeper due for a cruise in the North Atlantic. I wondered who he pissed off to draw that short straw.

 

[enbloc]

Ich Bein Ein Creamfilled Jellydonut?

Ja, Zie Bismarck!

By the end of the century, jelly doughnuts were also called Bismarcken, after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck. Due to the large number of central European immigrants, jelly doughnuts are known as bismarcks in parts of the American Upper Midwest, in Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, and even in Boston, Massachusetts.Dec 14, 2020

 

[SFC13557]

Donitz wanted 300 uboats Instead but Hitler went with that stupid thing instead, thankfully, or the world may look quite different today.

Yup, battleships were doomed by the development of air power and aircraft carriers. I think Billy Mitchell demonstrated that in the 20's. In the US Navy it was a battle of the Black shoes(Battleship Admirals) and the Brown shoes(aviation). The Japs missed sinking our carriers during the attack on Pearl Harbor because they were at sea which pretty much saved the Navy.

 

[426wedge]

Along with colonel Jackson down the mighty missip

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans, and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

 

[whacko]

We took a little bacon and we took a little beans, and we fought the bloody British in the town of New Orleans

We fired our guns and the British kept a-comin'
There wasn't nigh as many as there was a while ago
We fired once more and they began to runnin'
On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

 

[Dennis in MA]

First time I heard that song was. . . . 1976/77. There was a guy on Boston Common that did old folksy songs. He had a guitar and a banjo or guitar. He had these little wood figures he'd bounce on a board for percussion. He LOOKED like he was from 1850 or so. Scraggly beard, old clothes, etc.,

I loved sitting and watching him when my grandmother brought me into Boston.

 

[Maxrobot]

I helped sink the Bismarck - twice! As kids we built the Aurora model and my Dad let us sink it with bb gun fire. It was cool as the misses made spashes! the good news is this exact kit from the old molds is in pre-order from Atlantis models. That'll bring back memories!