Luftwaffe crew serving on BISMARCK

[Steinar]

Hello all, not exactly sure where to ask about this,.. but I would like to know if about the Luftwaffe men who served aboard the Bismarck, like how many was it, any LW RKTs, and did any of these people survive?

thanks

[Simon O.]

No RKT's that's for sure, why would there be?

According to the survivors list, there may have been one
http://www.bismarck-class.dk/bismarc...vors_list.html

though i'm unsure to the accuracy of that as his rank is given as a KM rank, though he could have worked with the aircraft as a sailor.

As i'm sure you know, Tirpitz and Bismarck had a compliment of 4 Ar-196, so there would have been at least 4 pilots, the observers could be either LW or KM, the ground crew compliment i've no idea but i wouldn't have thought more than 20 or 30 tops.