From Sat Dec 06 22:47:38 1997
>Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 23:48:37 -0800
>From: Steve Alvin
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>To: Marine History Information Exchange Group ,
> mahan
>Subject: Re: Camouflage — Bismarck spotting
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>John Snyder wrote:
>
> > Frank Pierce Young wrote:
> > >>>Wellings? Everything I have read or seen on that matter gives that
> > Bismarck-
> > spotting USN PBY pilot as an Ensign named Smith, which was repeated a
> > few
> > months ago on an hour-long PBS-TV documentary, now available on VCR
> > tape.
> > Were
> > there other USN fliers out there as well?>>>
>
>The Catalina Mk I of 209 squadron that spotted the _Bismarck_ was flown
>by RAF Flight Officer Dennis Briggs and the co-pilot was LT(JG) Leonard
>B. Smith, USN.
>
> > John Snyder
> > John_Snyder@bbs.macnexus.org
>
>
>
>–
>
>Steve Alvin
>Dept. of Social Sciences
>Illinois Valley Community College

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