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5 Νοε 2023 · That said, when she was finally sunk, her wreck became an interesting topic. Capsized in shallow water, until salvage work began soon after the war. The pictures of that salvage, much like...
11 Απρ 2018 · The scars of World War II are still visible today. A new study out looks at how Nazis warped Norwegian trees with poisonous gas to mask one of the largest battleships built for the conflict....
11 Απρ 2018 · The relentless campaign to find and sink Germany's WWII battleship, the Tirpitz, left its mark on the landscape that is evident even today. The largest vessel in Hitler's Kriegsmarine, it was...
12 Απρ 2018 · Germany's World War II battleship the Tirpitz, was among the largest in Hitler’s navy. Commissioned in 1941, the ship spent a large part of the war stationed along the Norwegian coast to...
Decades after the Royal Air Force sank the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944, and a subsequent salvage operation removed the ship's high-quality steel and operational equipment, hundreds of cubic metres of non-salvaged items remain on the site, along with widespread environmental contamination of the seabed.
A deck fire spread to the ammunition magazine for one of the main battery turrets, which caused a large explosion. Figures for the number of men killed in the attack range from 950 to 1,204. Between 1948 and 1957, the wreck was broken up by a joint Norwegian and German salvage operation.
20 Φεβ 2023 · On November 12, 1944, British “Tallboy” bombs from Royal Air Force Lancasters struck and sank Tirpitz near Tromsø, killing about 1,000 German sailors. Scrap from the once-mighty ship was sold off in a postwar salvage operation that lasted 11 years, a final testament to Tirpitz’s massive size. (Jim Laurier)
