This thread really brings home the problem of 'getting it right' in recording History. Even in an event so comparatively recent and well documented as the sinking of the Bismarck, we see how the 'facts' can be slippery and confusions slip in...and when singers begin to commerate and take poetic license,it only gets worse. Couple that with the intentional distortion of 'official' history for political purposes and it is a wonder that ANY 'truth' survives...

Perhaps a forum like this can actually help sort out a lot of varied interpretations, but as always, 'getting it right' is hard...making it 'interesting' is so much easier...and more fun!