Sink the Bismarck!
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Movie (1960)
French title : Coulez le Bismarck !
Starring:
Kenneth More (Captain Jonathan Shepard)
Dana Wynter (WRNS Second Officer Anne Davis)
Laurence Naismith (First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound)
Geoffrey Keen (Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff)
(Synopsis needed)
Supermarine Spitfire
First an archive footage with a Spitfire Mk V of No 501 Sqn ...
... which becomes a bubble top mark (Mk XVI or Mk XVIII or Mk 22 for example).
Fairey Swordfish
First flights are search and exploration ones. The Bismarck was found by a Consolidated PBY Catalina of the Coastal Command.
Another inaccuracy : no Swordfish was lost to ennemy fire.
Last takeoff loaded with torpedo.
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