When the Nazis moved Tirpitz to Tromso, Norway, the boat was in range of RAF bases in Scotland. The RAF attacked the Tirpitz, “again and again,” until November 12, 1944, when the fatal blow ...

Still, the Tirpitz was repaired just enough to transit under her own power to her final mooring off Hakoya island near Tromso, Norway. There, she was protected by two anti-aircraft ships ...

British warships and bombers hunted the ships, Bismarck and Tirpitz, across the North Atlantic. Early on November 12, 1944, 29 Lancaster bombers of the British Royal Air Force took off from their ...

Germany’s Tirpitz was the heaviest battleship ever built in Europe, and its presence in Norwegian waters threatened Allied supply lines to the USSR. This film traces the Allied response—one of ...

This week off Tromso harbor in northern Norway her barren ... the R.A.F. Bomber Command . . . attacked the German battleship Tirpitz with 12,0001b. bombs. There were several direct hits 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 ...

The mission to Tromso Fiord in Norway ... Bruce Buckham witnessed the sinking of the battleship Tirpitz.Credit: Imperial War Museum ''Then a second hit straight after that. Suddenly, there ...

Joplin’s Tallboy bomb was a near-miss between the shore and Tirpitz – sometimes the shock wave causes more damage than a direct hit Flying Officer Arthur Joplin, who has died in New Zealand ...