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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 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...
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...
11 Απρ 2018 · 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. Launched in 1939, the Tirpitz was one of two Bismarck...
Learn what is left of the Tirpitz today. Despite a salvage operation in the 1950s, close to 20% of the Tirpitz is still scattered across the bottom of the Fjord. For the first time, documentary cameras reveal what remains of Hitler's single biggest weapon. They find ladders, shells and cordite.
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)
