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German Admirals Laughed at the Swordfish, Until It Crippled the Bismarck

The Fairey Swordfish looked absurd against the towering Bismarck — slow, outdated, and fragile. But on a grey May evening in 1941, one of those canvas-covered relics struck the most decisive blow of the war at sea. A single torpedo jammed the Bismarck’s rudder, leaving her helpless before the Royal Navy’s guns. The laughter stopped — and the myth of the invincible battleship ended. Sources • Kennedy, Ludovic. Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck (1974) • Mearns, David & White, Rob. Hood and Bismarck (2001) • Tarrant, V. E. King George V Class Battleships (1991) • Roskill, S. W. The War at Sea, Vol. I (1954) • Ballard, Robert. The Discovery of the Bismarck (1989) This documentary contains restored and colorised archival footage sourced from public domain archives, Wikimedia Commons, and select private collections used under fair use for educational and documentary purposes. All digital restoration, editing, and colorisation are original works by Bitesize History. “The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement.”