Lost sailors haunt survivor of attack on Nazi warship Bismarck

[Bootie]

John Moffat's sparkling eyes grow dim when he remembers the 2,000 sailors swallowed up by the Atlantic after his torpedo bombers consigned the German battleship Bismarck to its doom nearly 70 years ago.
"That still haunts me. It was a terrible sight. All these heads bobbing up and down in the huge waves, and not a chance in hell of being saved," Moffat, 91, told Reuters in an interview.
Moffat is one of the last survivors from the biplane bombers that on May 26, 1941, crippled what was then the world's biggest warship, enabling the Royal Navy to destroy the Bismarck.
The sinking showed battleships could not match air power, and put an end to Hitler's dreams of challenging British superiority on the Atlantic, forcing Germany to focus on submarine warfare.


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[Wigam]

I remember a story about how they were starting to pick up survivors when a U-Boat message was flashed around and all the ships sped off fearing a attack from underneath.

 

[Louis]

The important thing is to live to tell .-

 

[Breakthrough]

" The:RpS_love: eyesssss of Texas are upon you.... Alll the live long dayyyyy "

 

[PoorOldSpike]

John Moffat's sparkling eyes grow dim when he remembers the 2,000 sailors swallowed up by the Atlantic after his torpedo bombers consigned the German battleship Bismarck to its doom nearly 70 years ago...

Yeah but those 2000 had just killed 1400 Brit sailors on the Hood, so they got payback, that's war.
My mother was 19 at the time and she told me how the neighbourhood was shocked at the news that a local sailor (I think his name was Ron Kemp) had "gone down with the Hood"