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. (Credit: No. 5 Group RAF/IWM) ...

Students find lost British WW2 bomber in Norwegian fjord. A Second World War Halifax bomber lost in a raid to sink the Tirpitz has been found largely intact at the bottom of a fjord near Trondheim ...

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 ...

Key Point: The Tirpitz may have been an inglorious kind of success for having forced the Allies to divert such disproportionate resources to contain and eventually destroy her. At 3 AM on the ...

The Tirpitz displaced slightly more than Bismarck at 58,000 tons when fully loaded with fuel and ammunition, ... 1942, a fishing boat named the Archer approached her, crossing the Trondheim Fjord.

The German battleship Tirpitz posed a serious threat to Allied ships during the Second World War. It was so dangerous to Allied forces that Winston Churchill made its destruction a priority.

THE hero pilot who found the Tirpitz, helping to end Hitler's war at sea, has died at 95. Squadron Leader George Watson defied a poisoned abscess to fly one handed 1,300 miles in appalling weather ...

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.