Ordnance began exploding. The captain ordered the sailors to abandon the ship. The entire surviving crew jumped into the water and watched as the Bismarck Sea exploded and burned for two hours ...

Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a naval captain ordered a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel.

His most famous role was as Ernst Lindemann, Captain of the Bismarck in the 1960 film Sink the Bismarck! opposite Kenneth More.