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The Tirpitz was one of WWII’s largest and most powerful battleships, earning a reputation as “unsinkable.” This video explores its design, missions, and the dramatic battles that defined its legacy.
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 ...
VIENNA —The Tirpitz was the Nazis' most imposing warship and the largest battleship ever built by a European navy. It should have been an easy target for bombers, but this massive vessel could ...
Launched in 1939, Tirpitz was a truly monumental military machine. The length of 2½ football pitches, it was crewed by 2,600 men and armed with an astonishing array of weapons including 58 anti ...
The central point of interest in this story of the German battleship is the fact that her mere existence--she saw practically no action--confirmed the old doctrine of the "fleet in being" and ...
Bjarke Ingels certainly has a way with words when it comes to describing his design for the newly opened Tirpitz Museum. “It’s almost compared to when you have a hot potato,” he says ...
In October 1935, the Hamburg-American freighter the Tirpitz, an 8,000-ton vessel carrying fuel from Nazi Germany, also struck the bridge as it was heading to unload cargo in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
That said, the Tirpitz seems to be a force to be reckoned with, and it's beautiful to boot, so what's not to love (besides the fact that you could buy a whole game for the same price)? You can ...