Sinking Battleships with GWX

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by the dark knight

I could have sworn I had read (and maybe the book I am thinking of was wrong, or I am ms-remembering), said that the British Battlecruisers took penetrating hits to the roofs from plunging fire, and this allowed the shell to hit the ammo. Like I said, it was a long time ago, and I could very well be wrong. It is all good!

Or you could very well be right. Since the magazines were under the turrets it's kind of hard to tell what did happen. The only evidence the sources I've read cite is that all three were seen to take turret hits.

In a way, yes. I will agree the British did cause the circumstances to unfold to force the scuttling of Bismarck. You could make the argument that they sank her due to those circumstances.

Here is what I think is the best documentary ever made on the subject. Baron von Mullenheim-Rechber, the ranking survivor of Bismarck, addressed the controversy with one of my favorite quotes of all time: "You can say to both sides 'Yes. You sank the Bismarck'."