Talk:Leonard B. Smith

Veracity
I created this article some time ago. Going to be honest; I don't know if it is true. I think it is, but my grandfather is 85 yo. and I'm not sure this story that he told me is 100% true, although it seems to check out. Could someone with contextual knowledge look into it? Andrew Keenan Richardson 06:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Two other Americans were also in Catalinas that spotted the Bismarck later in the day: Lt Johnson in M/240 in Z, and Ensign Rinehart in 0/210. The link for note 1 appears to be broken--Jpacobb (talk) 18:16, 16 October 2011 (UTC)jpacobb
 * In Pursuit: The Sinking of the Bismark Ludovic Kennedy gives information (pp. 141ff; 171 and notes, based on an interview with Smith and citing both USN and RN original documents) which I will summarize as follows. A number of US pilots who had ferried Catalinas across to the UK and were supposed to familiarize the RAF crews with the plane were unofficially used as copilots on operations. ["unofficially" because the USA was not at war with Germany at that time.] Smith was copilot of Z/209 when it went in search of the Bismarck and was at the controls when the battleship was spotted. He jettisoned the depth charges and made for cloud cover under heavy AA fire, losing sight of the Bismarck. Z/209 searched for her for a couple of hours without regaining contact and returned to base after hearing on the radio that M/240 was in contact.

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