John Moffat (Royal Navy officer)
(1919-2016)
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John William Charlton Moffat (17 June 1919 – 11 December 2016) was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot, widely credited as the pilot whose torpedo crippled the German battleship Bismarck and author of the biographical I sank the Bismarck. Moffat took part in the courageous strike on the German battleship Bismarck during its Atlantic sortie, codenamed Operation Rheinübung, on 26 May 1941 whilst flying a Fairey Swordfish biplane.
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17 June 1919 Swinton, Scottish Borders, near Kelso, United Kingdom
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11 December 2016 (aged 97) Perth, Scotland
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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