Battleship Bismarck (80 page)

Blackburne, Bridget, Lady,
328

Blackburne, Kenneth, Sir,
328

Black Prince
, HMS (armored cruiser),
333

Blair, Eric Arthur (pseud. George Orwell),
63

Blohm & Voss Shipbuilders, Hamburg,
2
,
30
,
32
,
48
,
60
,
61
,
69

Boeschenstein, Hermann,
354–55

Böhnel, Gerhard, Maschinengefreiter,
213
,
269

Bonhoeffer, Karl,
22

Bowmanville, Ontario,
112
,
315
,
350–55
,
360–66
,
368–70
,
375
,
384
,
385
,
388–89
,
390

Brauchitsch, Walter von, Generaloberst,
22

Bredow, Ferdinand von, Generalmajor,
346

Biehme
(tanker),
428

Brennecke, Jochen,
119n
,
198n
,
236n
,
289n
,
305n
,
441
,
442

Brent, Captain,
362
,
363

Brest, France,
165
,
192
,
202
,
222
,
225
,
450

Briggs, Dennis, Flying Officer (RAF),
193

Brinkmann, Helmuth, Kapitän zur See, commanding
Prinz Eugen
,
99
,
100n
,
158

Britannic
(troop transport),
172

Bromberg
(tanker),
71

Browne, Franziska,
7

Browne, Sir George,
7

Brückner, Günter, Leutnant zur See, commanding turret Caesar,
257

Budich, Hermann, Maschinengefreiter,
50
,
57
,
74
,
111
,
166
,
213
,
268
,
273
,
443

Burckhardt, CarlJ.,
364–65

Burns, Robert,
321

Busch, Hans-Günther, Marineoberstabsarzt,
275

Byas, C. W., Commander, first officer in HMS
Dorsetshire
,
288
,
296

Calliope
, HMS (training ship),
15–16

Campbell, Donald O, Lieutenant (RN), air defense officer, HMS
Rodney
,
258–60
,
447n

Campbell, Robert Lord, Lieutenant (USN), assistant naval attaché to U.S. embassy, London,
15–16

Campbell-Walter, Keith McNeil, Rear Admiral (RN),
328–29

Canarias
(Spanish cruiser),
223
,
295–96

Cardinal, Friedrich, Oberleutnant zur See,
74
,
96–97
,
250
; escapes from the
Bismarck
,
272–74
,
284
,
285

Carell, Paul,
371

Carls, Rolf, Generaladmiral, Commander in Chief, Naval Group Command North,
104
,
119n
,
304

Casimir, Johann II, King of Poland,
62

Cave-Brown, Anthony,
449n

Cecil, Robert, Earl of Salisbury,
331

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart,
412

Chamberlain, Sir Neville, British prime minister,
8
,
12
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
386

Childers, Erskine,
332

Churchill, Sir Winston, British prime minister,
1
,
78
,
79
,
119n
,
123
,
171
,
289
,
330
,
348
,
420
; on invasion of Russia,
324–25
; Tehran Conference, 1943,
392

Cockfosters (interrogation center),
308–21
,
328
,
329
,
330
,
335
,
336
,
338
,
371

Coode, Tim, Lieutenant Commander (RN),
241

Cope, Bertram, Lieutenant Commander (RNVR),
309
,
311

Cossack
, HMS (destroyer),
215
,
220
,
298

Crete, German landings in,
115
,
329

Croghan, Eddie,
329–30

Curteis, A.T.B., Rear Admiral (RN), commander of British Second Cruiser Squadron,
122

Daladier, Edouard, French premier,
20
,
21
,
232

Dalrymple-Hamilton, F.H.G., Captain (RN), commanding HMS
Rodney
,
257
,
275

Danzig, liberty in,
94

de Gaulle, Charles, General,
326

Denham, Henry W., Captain, British naval attaché in Stockholm,
105–6
,
108
,
112
,
121
,
122
,
304
,
305

Deutschland
(armored ship—later renamed
Lützow
),
77
,
429

Dieppe, invasion of,
360–61

Dithmarschen
(supply ship),
429

Dölker, Sigfrid, Oberleutnant zur See, antiaircraft section commander in the
Bismarck
,
169

Dönitz, Karl, Grandadmiral, Commander in Chief, U-boats,
160
,
165
,
315n
,
316

Dorsetshire
, HMS (cruiser),
220
,
244
,
297–98
,
299n
; in action with the
Bismarck
,
246–48
,
447–48
;
Bismarck
survivors aboard,
286–89
,
296
; rescues survivors,
280–85
,
289n
; sunk by Japanese,
296
; torpedoes the
Bismarck
,
260

Durant, Lieutenant Commander (RN), navigator in HMS
Dorsetshire
,
239n

Dury, G.A.I., Major, M.C., Grenadier Guards, commandant, Shap Wells,
337
,
339
,
345
,
349

Dusch, Friedrich-Wilhelm,
125–26

Eber
(gunboat),
15n

Eden, Sir Anthony, British foreign secretary,
388

Edinburgh
, HMS (cruiser),
171
,
194

Egerland
(tanker),
429

Eich, Adolf, Matrosengefreiter,
251n

Elsass
(predreadnought),
26

Emden
(cruiser),
301

Empire Spearhead
(transport),
409

Engel, Gerhard, Major,
262

Erich Giese
(destroyer),
7

Ermland
(supply ship),
223
,
428
,
443

Esso
(tanker),
428

Exeter
, HMS (cruiser),
240

Externbrink, Heinz,
118
,
128

Faulk, Henry, Colonel,
402–3

Featherstone Camp,
398–402

Feine, Hans Erich,
358

Ferdinand II, Kaiser,
62

Fleming, Ian, Lieutenant (RNVR),
329

Flindt, Karlotto, Leutnant zur See,
Prinz Eugen
,
70

Forbes, Admiral Sir Charles, commander, Home Fleet,
119n

Force H,
171
,
185
; interception of the
Bismarck
,
201
,
242
,
244
,
260

Förste, Erich, Admiral,
443

Fort Henry,
386

Franco, Francisco, General,
19

Franke, Rolf, Bootsmaat,
264

Freya
(cruiser),
89

Freytag, Wilhelm, Korvettenkapitän (Ingenieurwesen),
94
,
235
,
443

Fricke, Kurt, Konteradmiral, chief of the Seekriegsleitung’s Operations Section,
430

Friedrich, Jörg,
420

Friedrich Eckoldt
(destroyer),
83
,
101

Friesenland
(catapult ship),
428

Fritsch, Generaloberst, Baron von, Army commander in chief,
346

Fürst Bismarck
(battleship),
279

Galatea
, HMS (cruiser),
122

Galbraith, Lieutenant, HMS
Zulu
,
220–21

Gdynia.
See
Gotenhafen

Geliert, Karl, Kapitänleutnant, antiaircraft officer in the
Bismarck
,
161

General Artigas
(barracks ship),
44
,
50

Generotzky, Wilhelm, Maschinenmaat,
265–67
,
269
,
283–84

German-Polish Nonaggression Pact,
16
,
323

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact,
20

Giese, Hermann, Oberleutnant,
210–11

Globke, Hans,
379n

Gneisenau
(battlecruiser),
2
,
6
,
78–79
,
80–82
,
90–91
,
97
,
100
,
157
,
172
,
228
,
302
,
306n
,
319
,
323
,
443
; orders for Exercise Rhine,
425–26
,
431

Godfrey, John, Rear Admiral (RN),
314
,
329

Goebbels, Josef: broadcasts on invasion of Russia,
321–22
; speaks to workers of Blohm & Voss,
9
,
60–62
,
63
,
64
,
322
,
357
,
420

Gonzeheim
(scout ship),
83

Göring, Hermann, Reichsmarschall, Luftwaffe,
356
,
359
,
416

Gotenhafen (now Gdynia):
Bismarck’s
departure from,
100
,
101
,
443
; training base for the
Bismarck
,
54
,
70
,
72
,
94
,
112n
,
189
,
303

Gotland
(Swedish cruiser],
103–4
,
106
,
114
,
304

Grande Ligne, prisoner of war camp, Montreal,
390
,
391

Graph
, HMS (ex
U
-570),
318

Grasczak, Walter, Musikgefreiter,
295

Gray, Thomas,
330

Grenfell, Russell, Captain (RN),
149n
,
219n
,
253n
,
275n
,
289n
,
303
,
448n

Griffith, P. Eduard,
339

Grimstadfjord, Norway,
109–11
,
112
,
114
,
124
,
156
,
189

Grohé, Fritz, Hauptmann, Luftwaffe

officer on the fleet staff,
222

Grosz, Georg,
392

Group Command North.
See
Naval Group Command North

Group Command West.
See
Naval Group Command West

Guernsey, Hugh, Lieutenant Commander (RN), HMS
King George V
,
251

Gunnery Research Command for Ships, program on the
Bismarck
,
71

Habsburg, Kaiser Rudolf von,
62