The End of Battleship Tirpitz . 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.

After trials, training, a brief stint in the Baltic—and dodging two more British bombing raids at Kiel—on January 14 the Tirpitz set off for Norway, where she evaded six British air raids on ...

The Tirpitz had up to 320 mm of steel and reinforced decks to withstand aerial and naval bombardment.It was a true steel beast. Indeed, over the course of the war, British Prime Minister Winston ...

After the Tirpitz was commissioned into the war in 1941, Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Erich Raeder decided that it be sent to Norway, which had been successfully occupied by the Nazis the previous year.

The Tirpitz bunker was built by the Nazis as part of Hitler's Atlantic Wall in 1944, and abandoned, unfinished, at the end of WWII. Rasmus Hjortshoej Ingels describes the new building as a "museum ...

The Germans release a colossal smoke screen in an effort to hide their battleship Tirpitz, moored in Kaa Fjord, Norway, as it's attacked by a Lancaster on Sept. 15, 1944.