This is a photograph of the chap I mentioned who was on the ship that torpedoed the Bismark. His first experience of the navy was being ill in West Africa and being flown off his ship to be looked at by a doctor on shore. They sent him off on the plane in the second picture. He said he was sure he was going to drown. He was sitting in the bit at the front when the engine started, then there was a lot of hissing from steam pipes and the thing shot off the catapult and dived towards the sea. It was almost touching the water when it pulled away and took him to hospital. He said he was glad to be taken back to the ship in a boat.

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