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The War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck!
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| 27 May 2023
| Rick McGinnis
Posted on 05/28/2023 2:36:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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Dana Wynter was a beautiful woman.
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And Prince of Wales was later sunk by the Japanese off Singapore. Along with HMS Repiulse.
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:36:44 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
To: Rummyfan
Pride goeth before a fall.
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:37:52 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
To: Rummyfan
I watched it not long ago. A modern film showing the Swordfish attacking would be great to see on film. Also the Hood blowing up. I still like the original though. And yes, Dana Wynter was hot.
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:39:54 PM PDT
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
To: Macho MAGA Man
Good flick. Trafalgar Square is now taken over-pigeons.
To: Rummyfan
He was psychotic during the film.
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:55:16 PM PDT
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
To: Rummyfan
It was really a useless battle. Had Bismarck made it to France, there would have been endless bombing attacks and either badly damaged (like Gneisenau was in Germany) or made it back to Germany with the channel dash and then travel to Norway like Tirpitz where it was a target to the end of the war limited is usefulness due to damage and lack of fuel.
To: Macho MAGA Man
I think a movie about The Graf Spee would be good.
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:56:21 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Rummyfan
All the young English babes working in Allied Command HQ were stupendously good-looking and elegant.
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:56:38 PM PDT
by
OKSooner
(Kevin McCarthy = ((John Boehner) - (The excuse of alcoholism)))
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
05/28/2023 2:59:43 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
To: Rummyfan
"Shoot! Shoot!"
"Fire! Fire!"
"Shoot! Shoot!"
"Fire! Fire!"
With big booming noises in the background. Best war movie special effects ever, but it does require imagination instead of CGI.
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:01:20 PM PDT
by
Bernard
(“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
To: alternatives?
It was really a useless battle. Had Bismarck made it to France, there would have been endless bombing attacks and either badly damaged (like Gneisenau was in Germany) or made it back to Germany with the channel dash and then travel to Norway like Tirpitz where it was a target to the end of the war limited is usefulness due to damage and lack of fuel.Indeed it was. The age of the battleship was over, unless they were part of a battle group that provided air cover. The Tirpitz sat in a Norwegian fjord for years before the RAF finally managed to sink her.
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:02:17 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:09:03 PM PDT
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
To: Rummyfan
Wasn’t Tirpitz destroyed by one of the first experimental guided bombs. It was huge as well as I remember.
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:11:15 PM PDT
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
To: dfwgator
![](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048990/mediaviewer/rm750785792/?ref_=tt_ov_i)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048990/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:11:42 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: dfwgator
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:12:49 PM PDT
by
DFG
To: alternatives?
We got a great Sabaton song out of it. So there’s that.
To: Macho MAGA Man
Not sure about that... There was an earlier mission utilizing two-man underwater... craft... not submarines, the crew rode them in diving gear and they dropped amatol under her hull, with time delay fuses so they could get away. The explosions damaged the Tirpitz but did not sink her.
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:18:45 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
To: Rummyfan
Poor Admiral Lütjens. He was just too high-strung.
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:19:16 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Macho MAGA Man; Rummyfan
The Tirpitz was damaged by the mini-sub raid. But she was sunk by bombers dropping unguided 10,000 pounder bombs. She was hit a couple of times and rolled over.
To: Rummyfan
The main mission of the Bismarck was to get into the Atlantic where it was supposed to wreak havoc on the shipping.
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posted on
05/28/2023 3:25:08 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(45 is Superman! )
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