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Royal Navy veteran, 102, recalls hearing Churchill's orders to sink the Bismark

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One of the few people left alive who saw the sinking of the Bismarck in 1941 has spoken about the historic Royal Navy mission.

Roy Harland, 102, was on HMS King George V to hear Winston Churchill issue his command to destroy the German battleship. Radar operator Roy and his Royal Navy comrades soon carried out the Prime Minister’s orders in a key moment of the Second World War.

Speaking publicly about his wartime memories for the first time to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day on May 8, the great-grandad said: “I could clearly see the Germans jumping over the side. “I have been asked ‘did I think of revenge?’.

No – only pity to see a fellow mariner go to his certain death.” The King George V, the Home Fleet’s flagship, was at the Scapa

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