At 3 AM on the morning of November 13, 1944, three airfields in Scotland resonated to a low bass thrum as Rolls-Royce Merlin engines came roaring to life. Over the course of a half-hour, thirty-two ...

Operation Catechism marked the decisive end to the menace of the German battleship Tirpitz during World War 2. On November 12 ...

Description: Operation Tungsten aimed to neutralize the threat of Battleship Tirpitz to Allied convoys and strategic redeployment. Motivated by fears of Tirpitz's potential attacks on vital supply ...

At 3 AM on the morning of November 13, 1944, three airfields in Scotland resonated to a low bass thrum as Rolls-Royce Merlin engines came roaring to life. Over the course of a half-hour, thirty-two ...

While the Bismarck is by far the more famous of Germany's battleships in World War II, and certainly had the more spectacular career, her lesser-known sister-ship Tirpitz served for much longer, and ...

The German battleship Tirpitz was a constant threat to Allied merchant ships from 1942. On November 12, 1944, the ship was sunk off the coast of Tromsø, where it had been lying damaged since being ...

Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis.

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