Kenneth Pattisson (12 December 1916 – 13 July 2002) was a Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm pilot credited by some (most notably his own son) with fatally crippling the German battleship Bismarck on 26 May 1941 whilst flying a Fairey Swordfish biplane.
Following the recovery of Bismarck in 1998, many historians and the official Royal Navy press release credit John Moffat with that attack[3] Pattisson grew up in Southsea, Hampshire, and then moved to the Isle of Wight.
[1] Pattisson took a short-service commission in the Fleet Air Arm in the last months of peace prior to the Second World War.
[1] After Germany sank HMS Hood, a number of Royal Navy ships were tasked with the destruction of the German battleship Bismarck.
Of the 14 planes in the attack, only three pilots, including Pattisson, recognized the silhouette as that of Sheffield and not Bismarck and held their fire.