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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I don't disagree with this at all. At the start of the war Battleships weren't really designed for air threats, especially low level air threats like torpedo planes. Frankly if that torpedo had hit anywhere else it probably would have bounced off of the Bismarks lower armour belt. A torpedo shot like that disabling the rudder after being dropped off of a vintage bi-pane would be equivalent to Luke Skywalker hitting a thermal exhaust port right above the main port that was only two metres wide.
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It was a flu-key hit for sure, the Bismarck was a feared beast and for good reason, It took direct hits of 400 shells from various British ships to sink her even as a sitting duck, over 80 of which were from the 12 to 16 inch variety.
A Bismarck tribute
This is a must see. The pride of the British fleet feels Bismarks wrath, of the 1421 sailors...3 survive.(one of them comments in this vid)