Promoted to Flying Officer on April 20, 1941 Michael F. Suckling, R.A.F. a month and a day later took one of the most famous photos of the Second World War. He was on a photo reconnaissance mission over Norway when he snapped the photo of the battleship Bismarck in Grimstadfjord, confirming to the Admiralty that Bismarck was attempting to break out into the Atlantic.

Kapitänleutnant (Ing.) Burkard Freiherr von Müllenheim-Rechberg, the highest ranking officer to survive the sinking of the Bismarck said in an interview years later that he got the "Shock of my life" when he saw the photo in the newspaper while he was a POW in Canada.

On July 21, 1941 exactly two months after taking the photo of Bismarck, Suckling was on another photo recon mission this time over LaRochelle, France, sadly his aircraft was shot down and he was killed.

May 21, 1941 Bismarck in Grimstadfjord, Norway.

January 14, 1943: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada showing the photo taken by F/O Michael Suckling.