Volume 4 - No. 95 - June 27, 1941
Jun1941
'Closer, Get Closer Yet to the Bismarck!'
From 8.30 on the evening of May 26 until it was all over at about noon the next day – until, that is, the Bismarck had been fought to a finish and sent to the bottom – the officer whose story we give
Jun1941
I Was There! - We Helped in the Sinking of the Bismarck
The terrible punishment which the Bismarck withstood before she was finally torpedoed and the rescue of a hundred or so survivors from the great German warship are described by British naval officers
Jun1941
I Was There! - We Fired the Torpedoes that Finished Her
When the chase of the Bismarck was ended and her guns were silenced, she still had to be sunk by torpedoes from the cruiser Dorsetshire, and here is the story of Lieut.-Commander G. R. Carver who fire
Full index of this magazine
- Our Searchlight on the War
- Salute to Free France! Vive De Gaulle!
- 'We Come to Proclaim Syria Free'
- 'Closer, Get Closer Yet to the Bismarck!'
- Slow Progress in the Invasion of Syria
- Stiff Resistance to the Allies' Advance
- New Methods for Fighting Britain's Fires
- Our Diary of the War
- Inquest on Crete: The Commons Debate
- I Was There! - We Helped in the Sinking of the Bismarck
- I Was There! - We Fired the Torpedoes that Finished Her
- I Was There! - My Adventures After I Was Shot Down Over Crete
- I Was There! - On the Ark Royal We Had an Exciting Day
- The Editor's Postscript
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