Battleship Bismarck (84 page)

U-536
,
316–18

U-552
,
444

U-556
,
289n
,
293
,
313
,
444
; sponsor to the battleship
Bismarck
,
234

U-557
,
165

U-570
,
318
,
346
.
See also
HMS
Graph

U-Boat Flotilla,
25
,
71

Uckermark
(supply ship),
429

Versailles Treaty,
14
,
21
,
60
,
63
,
415

Vian, Philip, Captain (RN), commander, 4th Destroyer Flotilla,
215
,
216
,
220
,
231
,
242–43

Victorious
, HMS (aircraft carrier),
19
,
119n
,
122–23
,
166
,
170
,
185
,
186
,
201
,
202
,
206
,
298
; aircraft attack on the
Bismarck
,
168–69

Vickers, Lieutenant Colonel,
402

Vogel, Erich, Maschinenmaat,
267

Voigt, F. A.,
392–93

Voss, Hans, Rear Admiral (Ingenieurwesen, Oberkommando der Marine),
86

Wake-Walker, W. F., Rear Admiral (RN), Commander, First Cruiser Squadron,
121
,
141
,
170
,
174n
,
175

Wappler, Karl, Oberleutnant der Luftwaffe,
342–45

Warspite
, HMS (battleship),
333

Wartenburg, Ludwig-Yorck von, General,
347n

Weatherby, Richard,
311
,
326

Weissenburg
(tanker),
83
,
99
,
112n
,
117
,
189
,
306
,
428

Wellings, J. M., Lieutenant Commander (USN),
446n

Wharam, Thomas, telegraphist on HMS
Dorsetshire
,
282

Wilhelm II, Kaiser,
321
,
336

Wilson, J. S., Colonel,
108

Winterbotham, F. W,
449n

Wohlfarth, Herbert, Kapitänleutnant, commanding
U
-556,
289n
,
293
; on sponsorship of the
Bismarck
by
U
-556,
234
; efforts to recover war diary of the
Bismarck
,
230–34
; friendship with Lindemann,
234
; as prisoner of war,
313

Wolf, Ernst, Vizeadmiral,
60

Yalta Conference,
391n
,
392–93
,
403

Z-23
(destroyer),
83
,
101

Z-24
(destroyer),
83

Zickelbein, Bruno, Maschinengefreiter, member of the
Bismarck’s
damage-control team no.
6
,
267–68
,
269

Zoppot, liberty in,
94

Zulu
, HMS (destroyer),
215
,
216
,
220
,
298

About the Author

Burkard Baron von Müllenheim-Rechberg is a former naval officer, lawyer, and ambassador. Born in Spandau into a family where the profession of arms was an established tradition, he entered the navy of the Weimar Republic in 1929. During his naval career he served as an instructor at the Mürwik Naval School, as an assistant naval attaché at the German Embassy in London, and in cruisers and destroyers. He was assigned to the
Bismarck
in May 1940 and was the senior survivor at the time of her sinking on 27 May 1941.

In 1952 the Baron joined the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany and served in a variety of posts. At one time, he was Consul General in Toronto. He was also Ambassador to the West Indies, as well as to Zaire and Tanzania.

Baron von Müllenheim-Rechberg and his wife make their home near Munich, Bavaria.

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