Tags: Battleship, Nazi Germany, U.S. Navy, War, and World War II Hitler’s Battleship Tirpitz Never Fought Another Battleship (But Nearly Sank Thanks to a Submarine) November 10, 2019 ...

Hitler's most prized warship sits in Norwegian waters in September 1943, surrounded by torpedo nets, patrol boats, and mountain-high cliffs. At 42,900 tons of steel armed with eight 15-inch guns, ...

However, once World War II broke out, ... Amidst the Tirpitz’s non-engagements, the battleship received a major overhaul in Trondheim. While there, on October 31, 1942, ...

Bismarck and Tirpitz were Nazi Germany's most imposing warships, ... Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II.

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 ...

By spring 1942, the British had blunted the Nazi advance but still faced a desperate situation. British leaders feared the German navy, especially the battleship Tirpitz, wreaking havoc on Allied ...

British bombers flying toward the German battleship Tirpitz, upper left, in a Norwegian fjord, September 15, 1944. No. 5 Group RAF/ Imperial War Museums via Getty Images ...

Parade Magazine Photo A World War II Office of Naval Intelligence silhouette of German battleship Tirpitz . US Naval Institute Photo.

A 12,000-pound World War II-era bomb exploded in a shipping canal off the Polish port city ... The authors credit Tallboy bombs with sinking the German battleship Tirpitz off northern Norway in ...