With Bismarck gone, Tirpitz became the pride of the Kriegsmarine, but Hitler forbade surface ships from Atlantic commerce raiding after Bismarck was sunk. Instead, the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet ...

before being crippled by antiquated Swordfish torpedo bombers and subsequently sunk while attempting to escape to France. The Tirpitz displaced slightly more than Bismarck at 58,000 tons when ...

The British had spent years eyeing the Tirpitz, and finally, with Operation Catechism, the Royal Air Force was able to sink the hallmark battleship. When the Nazis moved Tirpitz to Tromso ...

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 ...

It took three years and multiple operations, but in 1944 30 RAF Lancaster bombers armed with Tallboy earthquake bombs finally sunk the Tirpitz. The ship took two bombs, suffered internal ...

The populace turned against him when it was seen that the new German navy had only served to drive England into the arms of France, her traditional foe; and when it was realized that von Tirpitz ...

The powerful German battleship Tirpitz, sister of Bismarck sunk at sea after a long and difficult chase in 1941, exerted a powerful influence on the Royal Navy. Tirpitz was the centrepiece of the ...

The were elated having brought back film of the Tirpitz being sunk. Dad was first to hear the news. The following evening the film was shown on the base. He also serviced S-for-Sugar, one of the ...

The Tirpitz was the Third Reichs ultimate weapon ... and Arctic seaways It took 36 attempts over five years to finally sink her Sink the Tirpitz recreates the fiveyear struggle to destroy Hitlers ...

On one occasion in 1944, the German Battleship Tirpitz, the sister ship to the Bismarck, was hit by such a bomb and sank. What sets apart a bunker buster from a regular aircraft-dropped bomb?