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AIRSHOWS & EVENTS Round the World 2014
MICHEL Charron
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Airport: UK - Scotland - Perth - Scone (PSL / EGPT)
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Photo taken on 2014-5-19 by Wallace Shackleton [Contact]
Camera setting: Canon EOS-1D X, 1/50s, f/16.0 at 55mm ISO 100
Photographer's remark
(21.5.2014, 07:05 CET)
Dave McElroy receives good wishes from his friend and fellow pilot and Scottish Aero Club member John Moffat. John was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal navy when in the 24th of May 1941 he and his Observer T/S-Lt.(A) J. D. "Dusty" Miller, and telegraphist/Air Gunner (TAG) LA A. J. Hayman, flying in the Fairey Swordfish L9726, crippled the Bismarck with a torpedo strike on her port stern. The explosion jammed Bismarck's rudder, which left her unmanoeuvrable and unable to escape, leading to the battleships eventual sinking.
After the war John wrote a book entitled "I Sunk the Bismark." John tells me that he was deeply offended by the Publisher changing the title as it should have been "We sunk the Bismark." Such is the nature of the man.
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