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The War at Sea: Sink the Bismarck!
Steyn Online ^ | 27 May 2023 | Rick McGinnis

Posted on 05/28/2023 2:36:44 PM PDT by Rummyfan

It's fun and easy to make fun of Hollywood's creative bankruptcy these days, and its reliance on remakes and reboots and retellings of stories it's told many times before. There are, however, some stories worth remaking; Roland Emmerich's recent Midway (2019) was as strident and bombastic as anything made by Michael Bay, but at least it put the 1976 film of the same name, a star-studded but tedious Sensurround epic, deep in the shadows where it belongs.

Like sci-fi, war films are the major beneficiaries of the digital effects revolution. Some taste and restraint are needed, of course, though they're often in short supply; Russia in particular has recently produced dozens of war films (White Tiger, T-34, Tankers, Stalingrad, The Pilot), usually with scripts of a much lower priority to the filmmakers than increasingly outlandish and improbable visual effects – tank shells in Russian pictures travel in slow motion, the camera trailing and spinning around them as they create outsized damage with impossible accuracy.

But when I see the quality and technical sophistication of films like Dunkirk (2017) and 1917 (2019), I can't help but hope that someday someone will take another shot at the story of the Bismarck, the leviathan German battleship that was the most feared ship on the ocean during the early days of World War 2, albeit only for the eight days of her first and only voyage. There is, of course, a perfectly serviceable film about the Bismarck available on streaming services and disc, but to modern eyes it looks like a relic from the days of model boats filmed in swimming pools.

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To: mewzilla

Between that and The Battle of New Orleans i learned history Johnny Horton style.


21 posted on 05/28/2023 3:26:24 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The road to tyranny is paved with compliance )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_bomb


22 posted on 05/28/2023 3:30:34 PM PDT by Daaave ('You Nexus huh? I design your eyes.')
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To: Daaave

That’s it! I had thought it was guided though. Thanks for posting it.


23 posted on 05/28/2023 3:33:57 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

“And yes, Dana Wynter was hot.”

Oh yes I think I have watched that movie many times just for her.


24 posted on 05/28/2023 3:34:38 PM PDT by nomorelurker
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To: Macho MAGA Man

No, that was the HMS Barham. It was sunk by a German radio controlled guided bomb.


25 posted on 05/28/2023 4:04:56 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: Fai Mao

You’re correct! I had the wrong ships confused. I knew that there was a radio guided bomb somewhere in the mix. Experimental gyroscope I believe.


26 posted on 05/28/2023 4:14:25 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Fai Mao

The HMS Barham struck a mine. It was the Italian battleship aroma that was hit by a German glide bomb (HS-293, I think).


27 posted on 05/28/2023 4:15:59 PM PDT by catman67 (14 gauge?)
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To: Fai Mao

I just went and checked. Wrong ship again.

Why did HMS Barham explode?
The final moments of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship, HMS Barham, when it was struck by torpedoes from a German submarine during World War II which resulted in a terrifying explosion.

So it wasn’t a radio guided bomb!


28 posted on 05/28/2023 4:17:44 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Steely Tom

Poor Admiral Lütjens. He was just too high-strung.

As I recall the Brits lost contact with the Bismarck. Lutjens broke radio silence and gave up his position. I think the strategy of using battleships as commerce raiders was flawed.


29 posted on 05/28/2023 4:17:50 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Now, you can learn about the Bismarck and other military history from Sabaton, if you like:
https://youtu.be/oVWEb-At8yc


30 posted on 05/28/2023 4:17:53 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: Steely Tom

Poor Admiral Lütjens. He was just too high-strung.

As I recall the Brits lost contact with the Bismarck. Lutjens broke radio silence and gave up his position. I think the strategy of using battleships as commerce raiders was flawed.


31 posted on 05/28/2023 4:18:19 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DeplorablePaul

Yep, they were loosing oil and broke radio silence to base in France fixing to make a run for it.


32 posted on 05/28/2023 4:38:32 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Macho MAGA Man

It was one of the Queen Elizabeth class battle ships. Not Warspite, not he QE, not Barham and I do not think it was Malaya so the 5th one


33 posted on 05/28/2023 4:39:10 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
...dropping unguided 10,000 pounder bombs.

You can go on Google Earth, or other mapping services, and see the site of the Tirpitz's sinking. The ship has been scrapped, but huge craters can still be seen at the nearby shoreline, from Tallboy bombs that missed.

34 posted on 05/28/2023 4:40:20 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Fai Mao

I don’t know. I thought the ship was hidden in a cove or something but was spotted and attacked.


35 posted on 05/28/2023 4:41:11 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man (The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects )
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To: Fai Mao

Warspite was crippled by a guided bomb, but did not sink. She was never fully repaired, and had one steam turbine and propeller out for the remainder of her service.


36 posted on 05/28/2023 4:43:51 PM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: Rummyfan
"We didn't sink the Bismarck,
No matter what they say.
For when we saw the German ship,
We sailed the other way."

--Sink the Bismarck by Homer & Jethro

37 posted on 05/28/2023 4:46:48 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator
There was a movie from the mid-1950's entitled "The Pursuit of the Graf Spee." I have never seen it but friends of mine who saw it in the early 1960's liked it.
38 posted on 05/28/2023 4:51:32 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: OKSooner
All the young English babes working in Allied Command HQ were stupendously good-looking and elegant.

English girls are among the world's prettiest.

39 posted on 05/28/2023 4:52:28 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Rummyfan
I remember watching Sink the Bismark when I was a youngster. I always liked that movie.
40 posted on 05/28/2023 4:58:53 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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