WI: Bismark damaged in april of '41?

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Brilliant! It's doubtful that the film would live upto the name except for Ron Goodwin's score.

I'm picturing a blazing fireball of a Whirlwind, shot up by the arriving German fighters and the bomb release gone, slamming into the train carriages dead-on and triggering the 15" ammunition they have on board because of course they do.
 
I'm picturing a blazing fireball of a Whirlwind, shot up by the arriving German fighters and the bomb release gone, slamming into the train carriages dead-on and triggering the 15" ammunition they have on board because of course they do.

It's a while since I saw 633 Squadron or Mosquito Squadron (both Mirsch Films productions) but I'm sure one of the supporting characters sacrifices himself by flying his Mosquito into the cliff/tunnel entrance in both of them.

Mosquitos will have to double for Whirlwinds in the film unless there are a few still flying in the late 1960s ITTL. Both fims have a Bf108 doubling for a Bf109 when the Germans attack the RAF airfield.

As Mirsch Films also made Attack on the Iron Coast (obviously based on the St Nazaire Raid) and Submarine X-1 (obviously based on the mighet submarine attack on the Tirpitz) that they didn't make a film called, 618 Squadron where the projected bouncing-bomb attack on the German warshps in Norway takes place.
 
Never could quite figure that out. It was that raid, with the serial numbers filed off.

I think _Raid on St Nazaire_ would have worked as a film

There is also a British film called The Gift Horse made in 1952. It's about one of the American destroyers transferred in 1941. It ends with the ship being sent on a suicide mission which is obviously based on the St Nazaire raid.
 
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