John Moffat (Royal Navy Officer)
Second World War
- Battle of the Atlantic
John William Charlton Moffat (17 June 1919) was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot, famous for crippling the German battleship Bismarck during its Atlantic sortie, codenamed Operation Rheinübung on 26 May 1941, whilst flying a Fairey Swordfish biplane.
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