Originally posted by III/JG52-Freiherr V. Kaos@17 Jun 2004, 09:19
Ils étaient 9 pour la première attaque, et le temps était atroce. Je crois qu'un seul est rentré.
15 pour la seconde.
A vérifier, mais quelque soient les résultats, je ne vois pas comment on peut dire qu'il ai eu toute les peines du monde à les abattre. 
Effectivement kaos, il y'a bien eut deux vagues et c'est la seconde qui à bloqué la gouvernail du bismark. Mais il n'ya bien eut aucune perte.
Pour la première il étaient seulement neuf à décoller et seulement huit ont attaqué le bismark et ont réussi à placer une torpille sans perte.
Voici le texte tiré d'un site sur le bismark.
At 2210, some 120 miles from Bismarck, Victorious launched all her nine Swordfish torpedo planes of the 825th Squadron under the command of Lieutenant-Commander (A) Eugene Esmonde.4 At 2300, they were followed by three Fulmars of the 800Z Squadron, and at 0100 by two more to maintain touch. Esmonde obtained a surface contact on his ASV (anti-surface vessel) radar at 2350, and prepared his aircraft for the attack, but instead of Bismarck he found the US Coast Guard Cutter Modoc (Lieutenant-Commander Harold Belford). The Bismarck, only six miles away, spotted the British aircraft and opened fire immediately while increasing the speed to 27 knots.
One Swordfish lost contact with the rest of the squadron in a cloud layer, and only eight planes proceeded to attack around midnight. The German anti-aircraft fire was very intense and even the main and secondary batteries opened fire. Lindemann and the helmsman, Hans Hansen, operating the press buttons of the steering gear, successfully avoided the first six torpedoes when suddenly the battleship was hit. A 18 inch MK XII torpedo struck Bismarck's starboard side, amidships, at the level of the main belt which resisted the explosion very well. The damage was minimal, although the explosion caused the death of Oberbootsmann Kurt Kirchberg (who became the first casualty aboard) and injured six men.
The Bismarck as photographed by one of 825 Squadron’s Swordfish, 24 May 1941.
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Despite the heavy anti-aircraft fire none of the obsolete Swordfish were shot down, and by 0230, all of them had landed on the Victorious. However, the last two Fulmars that had been launched from Victorious were not so fortunate, and they were lost
Pour la seconde, je n'ai pas vu le nombre d'avions mais de nouveau aucune perte pour les swordfisch.
The Swordfish striking force, this time under the command of Lieutenant-Commander T.P. Coode, first approached the Sheffield to get the range and bearing to the Bismarck, and at 2047, began the attack. Bismarck's anti-aircraft battery opened fire immediately. During the course of the attack, the Bismarck received at least two torpedo hits. One torpedo (or two) hit the port side amidships, and another struck the stern in the starboard side. The first hit did not cause important damage, but the second jammed both rudders at 12º to port. The Bismarck made a circle and then began to steer northwest involuntarily into the wind. As before, none of the Swordfish were shot down although some were hit several times. The damage to the Bismarck was so serious that at 2140, Admiral Lütjens sent the following message to Group West: "Ship unable to manoeuvre. We will fight to the last shell. Long live the Führer".
remarque grâce à toi, j'ai trouvé une faute dans une monographie atlas sur le swordfish. Ils prétendent que c'est la première vague qui a bloqué le gouvernail
