Pilot Officer Briggs - Catalina pilot reporting on the sighting of the Bismarck

Recording in which Pilot Officer Briggs explains how he and the crew of his Catalina located the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic.

Pilot Officer Briggs gives an account of the 18 hour patrol during which he sighted the German battleship Bismarck at sea in the North Atlantic. He describes the anti-aircraft barrage put up by the German ship, comments briefly on damage sustained to the Catalina and explains how, after being relieved by another Catalina, he returned to base.