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HMS HOOD & BISMARCK
anniversary SPECIAL
R
HMS HOOD
&
BISMARCK
BRITAIN’S BEST SELLING MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
38 PAGES OF SPECIAL
BONUS CONTENT
• Battling the French
• Clash of the Titans
• Hood Sinking Analysed
• Bismarck Coup de Grâce
First George
Cross Winner
The Boy VC:
Jutland 1916.
Matilda Tank
Restored
PLUS:
COURAGE OF
VC WINNER
Supreme sacrifice to hold
the line: France 1940
RUDOLF HESS:
FLIGHT TO BRITAIN
MAY
2016
ISSUE 109
UK
£4.60
The story behind one of the Second
World War's strangest events
From the
Editor...
HE EVENTS of 1940, from the ‘Blitzkreig’ through to Dunkirk and into the Battle of Britain and the Blitz
were hugely momentous. It may well have seemed, then, that the war could not possibly take any turns
that were anything like as dark or even remotely as dramatic. As things turned out, that was not the case.
The sinking of HMS
Hood,
seventy-five years ago this month, with awful loss of life, and followed immediately by the
dramatic pursuit and destruction of the
Bismarck,
were landmark events of the Second World War. The sinking of the two
ships, and the associated terrible death tolls, underscored the fact that not only was this total war but it was also a war of the
most awful ferocity. That ferocity was also still being played out in the on-going Blitz, and then as Germany prepared for its
onslaught towards Russia in the East and Operation Barbarossa. Truly, by the spring of 1941, the year was already showing
itself to be one of the most bitter fighting, although one single event during May that year also stood out as being as bizarre as
it was remarkable; the arrival in Britain of Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess.
In this issue we mark the arrival of Hess, although our main focus is rightly on the story of HMS
Hood
and the
Bismarck
in
our special supplement. In 38 pages of special content we pay tribute to these two iconic ships and mark the awful toll exacted
upon the sailors of the opposing navies in this ‘Clash of The Titans’.
T
Andy Saunders
(Editor)
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HMS HOOD AND BISMARCK
63 Special Cover
Turn to page 63 for the start of our 75
th
anniversary special
content on HMS
Hood
and
Bismarck.
Launching our
Hood
and
Bismarck
anniversary special section,
Bruce Taylor details the origins of HMS
Hood,
charting her
pre-war days with the Royal Navy.
70 Baptism of Fire
64 From Peace to War
In the second of his features in this supplement, Bruce
Taylor continues the story of the ‘Mighty
Hood’,
relating
her involvement in Britain’s darkest days of July 1940 and
the Royal Navy’s attack on the French Fleet.
The origins and early days of the legendary battleship
Bismarck
are analysed by John Ash.
John Ash offers a graphical study of the major ships
involved in the great hunt for
Bismarck.
78 Pride of the Kriegsmarine
82 Fleet Review
Contents
See pages 48 and 49 for
more details.
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The Strange Case of Albert Horn
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116
The Trick Rider's Greatest Feat
SPECIAL
84 Clash of the Titans
In our flagship piece, Professor of Naval History, Eric Grove,
shares his detailed and vivid account of
Hood’s
battle with
Bismarck,
offering his own interpretation on the fate of a
British icon.
Andy Thomas highlights the vital role played by air power
in the chase for
Bismarck
and its part in securing her fate.
FEATURES
22 The Strange Case of Albert Horn
Andy Saunders takes up the story of a lone German Aircraft
which crashed in rural Scotland. Its sole occupant at first
claimed he was somebody else but was, in fact, Rudolf Hess.
Stuart Hadaway looks at the unusual career of an unusual man,
John Thearsby Bankes-Price, an American volunteer flying with
the Royal Naval Air Service.
The transition from ‘hot’ war to the Cold War saw the Royal
Observer Corps move from plotting aircraft to the monitoring of
atomic bomb bursts and radioactive fallout in the nuclear age.
100
th
EDITOR’S CHOICE
32 ‘Quite The Best…’
92 Hunting the Bismarck
98 ‘Sink the Bismarck!’
100 Epilogue
40 Cold War Watchers
Phil Jarman looks at the message behind the classic 1960
British war film: ‘Sink the Bismarck!’
John Ash signs off our special supplement with a tribute to
the men of
Hood
and
Bismarck,
leaving the last word to
those who were there.
52 The Boy VC
To mark the
anniversary of the Battle of Jutland we look
at the unusual back-story to the battle’s most famous VC,
awarded to Jack Cornwell, the Boy Sailor.
In an exclusive feature for Britain at War, Lord Ashcroft tells the
remarkable story of courage displayed by the man awarded the
first George Cross.
The heroic feats of George Gristock are related by Steve
Snelling in the story of a man caught in a desperate armed
struggle against the odds.
102 ‘Circumstances of Exceptional Danger’
116 The Trick Rider’s Greatest Feat
REGULARS
8 News
News, restorations, discoveries and events from around the World.
17 War Memorials
21 Fieldpost
We take a look at the Sedgeberrow War Memorial.
Your �½etters, input and feedback.
46 First World War Diary
Our monthly look at the First World War’s key events continues,
arriving at May 1916. A Kentish town is rocked by an aerial attacker,
the north of England and Scotland are targets in the most northerly
Zeppelin raid so far and the infamous Battle of Jutland takes place.
Our editors review a new book on The Battle of Jutland.
50 Recon Report
60 Image of War
A Polish Spitfire makes it home after sustaining some staggering
battle damage over France.
We continue our monthly look at some of the Great War’s gallantry
awards, this time covering May 1916. Lord Ashcroft also selects his
‘Hero of the Month’.
When a German Zeppelin airship was shot down over Hertfordshire
it was souvenired on a grand scale, with parts sold in their many
thousands in order to aid charity.
124 Great War Gallantry
COVER STORY
(STEFAN@BISMARCK3D.NETSTREFA.COM.PL),
ILLUSTRATION BY PIOTR FORKASIEWICZ
(INFO@PETERFOR.COM))
In this dramatic portrayal of firepower,
and of the might and pride of the
Royal Navy, HMS Hood fires a powerful
broadside during her fatal engagement
with Bismarck in the Battle of Denmark
Strait on 24 May 1941. Hit by shells
from Bismarck, Hood exploded and sank
with the loss of 1,415 men. Three days
later, after a long chase, Bismarck was
finally sank, taking some 2,000 men
with her.
(MODEL BY STEFAN DRAMINSKI
130 The First World War in Objects
❅
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