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 ...

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. Over the course of a half-hour, thirty-two ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...

The Nazis regularly used chemical fog to hide its Tirpitz battleship in the Norwegian fjords during World War II. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons Germany's World War II battleship the Tirpitz, ...

The battleship Tirpitz, Germany’s largest and warship of WWII, was an enormous threat to Allied naval operations. In response ...

In 1943, Operation Source unfolded off Norway's coast. In a secret mission, the British Navy deployed X-class midget submarines to strike the anchored Battleship Tirpitz... Consider supporting HoH: ...

The last of the RAF heroes who sank Adolf Hitler’s fearsome warship, the Tirpitz, has died at the age of 100. Sydney Grimes was a wireless operator on a Lancaster bomber on the final two of the three ...

A VETERAN of the legendary 617 ‘Dambusters’ squadron has been honoured at a presentation in Ilkley. On November 12, 1944 Sgt Charles Basil Fish boarded a Lancaster bomber carrying a newly developed ...

Nazi Germany's two Bismarck-class battleships were the most imposing it built during World War II. The threat they posed to convoys and warships made them a special target for the Allies. British ...