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Show means of excellent listening devices. de-vices. The British employed radar for the same purpose. A9 a result of the tracking, each navy jumped to the conclusion that the other had stolen its technical secrets. Admiral Gallery reveals that the British might have sent a boarding party aboard the floundering flound-ering Bismarck but failed to do so. "She was a pushover to board, there was little to lose in trying, and there was a glorious page in naval history to gain, if the attempt at-tempt succeeded." Had the Bismarck Bis-marck geen towed to port, it would have given the greatest boost of the war to British morale. Bismarck Fray Is Described TNDIRECTLY, Herman Goerlng 4 was responsible for the destruction destruc-tion of the German battleship, Bismarck, it has been revealed. Rear Admiral D. V. Gallery, U.S.N., recently cited the reluctanceor reluc-tanceor refusal of the Luftwaffe Luft-waffe to come to the aid of the German battleship as one of the factors that led to her sinking by the British on May 21, 1941. At the same time, Admiral Gallery, Gal-lery, who interrogated survivors Df the ill-fated dreadnaught, points jut that the entire battle was virtually vir-tually a comedy of errors on both sides, with luck and British mis-:ues mis-:ues favoring the Nazis. The latter lat-ter pulled several boners themselves. them-selves. Gallery states. "The Nazis committed a fatal Slunder at the beginning. Concern with the fuel supplies completely iominated the plans of the admirals ad-mirals on both sides Nevertheless, Neverthe-less, the Bismarck sailed from Norway 2,000 tons short of her lull capacity of fuel!" A serio-comic touch was lent to the entire "Battle of Blunders", '.he Admiral states, when the Germans, Ger-mans, without radar of their own, tept accurate track of the British ships stalking the Bismarck by |