Key Point: The Tirpitz may have been an inglorious kind of success for having forced the Allies to divert such disproportionate resources to contain and eventually destroy her. At 3 AM on the morning ...
In 1943, Operation Source unfolded off Norway's coast. In a secret mission, the British Navy deployed X-class midget ...
The Tirpitz was the follow-on sistership of the notorious Bismarck, a monster battleship designed from the get-go to vastly exceed the tonnage-limitations stipulated by the Washington Naval treaty ...
My father's account of HMS Belfast and the Bombing of the Tirpitz [All spellings are as in the original document] 30th March 1944 A nice day with warm sunshine. We put to sea at 1110 and with us is ...
Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...
In September 1943, a daring midget submarine attack by Royal Navy volunteers succeeded in crippling the mighty German battleship, Tirpitz. Dr Eric Grove examines the mission, including evidence that ...
Shortly after 1:00 a.m. on March 28, 1942, a destroyer flying the German flag and 18 smaller boats entered the Loire River estuary and headed for the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire on France's ...