Lois & Clark Forums Forums General Discussion Off Topic Big mistake in a book

I was in a book shop last night and they had a book on famous aircraft carriers and submarines well they had a few of the famous ones (and omitted the Japanese fleet in Midway), but one they had placed in it was the Bismarck. The book is made for kids and you are teaching them that the Bismarck was an aircraft carrier? It was a battleship people not an aircraft carrier! How did the publishers not pick up that it was such an obvious mistake.

its amazing what gets published incorrectly today. if you think about it when is the last time that you can remember seeing the massive killings of the indians in a history book? all you read about is how we gave them land for reservations.
i understand your anger

Hi Cashley! Hee hee. So glad you posted. Everyone meet my friend Cashley. We're good friends in RL.

Oh and lovin the sig'. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rock!

Sorry to get off subject. That is crazy that the book had that incorrect info. Do you think that maybe there was a Bismarck that was an air craft carrier, just not as well known as the battleship? Don't know. I'm grasping at straws here...

It's quite possible that the American aircraft carrier USS Bismarck Sea isn't popular enough to be recognized today because it was sunk not even a year after it was launched - I for one didn't know of the ship but there was already enough World War 1 and 2 history of Europe to learn here in Europe

Add some inconsistencies in (maybe) not addressing the ship correctly ("Bismarck" vs "USS Bismarck Sea") and the fact that there were two German Bismarck-class battleships called "Bismarck" and "Tirpitz" .. and you've got plenty of confusion.

Both "Bismarck" and "Tirpitz" were German ships in the Atlantic Ocean (and Tirpitz later in the Norwegian Sea) and this should make the distinction fairly easy, because the American "USS Bismarck Sea" has always been in the Pacific Ocean and was sunk south of Japan.