The most advanced battle cruiser of WWII...
Taken out by a WWI designed biplane...
She was a treaty-cheating interwar Battleship (not a battlecruiser) ... Somewhat heavier than the contemporaneous US "South Dakota" class and lighter than the US "Iowa" class, with a significantly inferior main battery to either of these US battleship classes.
The Fairey Swordfish torpedoes didn't sink her. Two of them caused damage and flooding, endangering the engine rooms. Moffat's final torpedo wrecked her rudders ... She was destroyed the old fashioned way, by gunfire and torpedoes from numerous Royal Navy ships of all classes.
"Right, sir! What's the mission?"
"Well, see that pocket battleship there? The one with the fastest propulsion, heaviest armament, most advanced fire control, and best crews in the entire German navy? The one bristling with radar-directed automatic cannon and machine guns?"
"Yes, sir."
"We want you to get into that there biplane, fly nice and low and slow, straight in, mind you, and drop a torpedo at them as close as you can get."
"Have you been drinking, sir?"
And then he actually did. Just damn.
...flown by a member of the Greatest Generation.
Unlike other nations battleships which were designed for the longer ranges of the WWII era, Bismarck was a warmed over 1913 design suited to refighting Jutland. Poorly arranged armour, bad torpedo defence system, marginal radar.
“Taken out by a WWI designed biplane...”
Nope. Biplane designs came a long way in the TWENTY years after WW1 before monoplanes took over. An early 1930’s biplane was a vastly different beast than a 1916 biplane. They might look similar from a distance but that does not mean much.