In 1941 they had Spitfire Mk Vs at hand, but none of them had the range to reach the area of the Bismarck battle. The only British planes in that region were were the Swordfish that made it possible for the battleships to catch her, and they flew off carriers, and long-range patrol planes such as the Catalina that found her in the first place.
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