In the early hours of the 27th of May, 1941, the German warship Bismarck 聽scourge of the Atlantic ocean 聽was sailing towards a fateful 聽encounter. Two days previously, Prime Minister Winston Churchill had 聽issued the order to "Sink the Bismarck". High winds and low visibility 聽added to the atrocious morning weather as Fleet Air Arm pilot, John 聽Moffat, took to the air in his open cockpit bomber.

Along 聽with twelve other brave pilots, John Moffat took down the largest 聽warship of its time. A warship that had destroyed the famed HMS Hood 聽within minutes, and was able to withstand anything the British military 聽threw at them. These men, in their Swordfish, managed to avoid the 聽fearful anti-aircraft fire and launched their torpedoes. One of them 聽hit, holing the German warship.

This is his story - of how 聽as a young man he experienced first-hand the titanic struggle for naval 聽supremacy, the cramped-cabins and meagre rations of WW2, the 聽mind-numbing patrols over hundreds of miles of ocean and the adrenalin 聽and fear of being in a fragile aircraft sought out by gunfire. As the 聽only surviving member of his fellow pilots, John Moffat tells of 聽everything that led him to be able to say, "I sank the Bismarck".