Name a German Battleship that was sank by a bombing mission lead by Baron Cheshire's successor as the commander of the 617 Squadron?
James Brian Tait Group Captain James Brian "Willie" Tait, (9 December 1916 – 31 August 2007) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during and after the Second World War. He conducted 101 bombing missions during the war, including the one that finally sank the German battleship "Tirpitz" in 1944. He succeeded Leonard Cheshire as commander of the famous 617 Squadron and, with six gallantry decorations to his name, remains one of the most distinguished airmen in the history of the nations of the British Commonwealth.
Sink the Bismarck! Sink the Bismarck! is a 1960 black-and-white CinemaScope British war film based on the book "The Last Nine Days of the Bismarck" by C. S. Forester. It stars Kenneth More and Dana Wynter and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. To date, it is the only film made that deals directly with the operations, chase and sinking of the battleship "Bismarck" by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Although war films were common in the 1960s, "Sink the Bismarck!" was seen as something of an anomaly, with much of its time devoted to the "unsung back-room planners as much as on the combatants themselves." Its historical accuracy, in particular, met with much praise despite a number of inconsistencies.