SIGHTING
THE BISMARCK by Robert Taylor
At
10.30 on the morning of 26th May, 1941, a lone Catalina of
209 Squadron rediscovers the mighty German battleship Bismarck
- pride of the Kriegsmarine - which had eluded the Royal Navy
for more than 32 hours. Heavy flak surrounds the Catalina
as she signals the position of the Bismarck - some 700 miles
west of Brest - to the Admiralty. The following day, confronted
by the Royal Navy battleships King George V and Rodney, supported
by 2 cruisers, the Bismarck was sunk during one of the epic
actions of modern naval warfare.
Each
print is signed by FOUR of the small band of
only 110 crew members who survived the sinking of the Bismarck.
