The story of the battleship Tirpitz Bismarck s sister ship and the desperate Allied efforts to destroy it . . . After the Royal Navy s bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any other battleship afloat, as well as wreak havoc on Allied troop and supply convoys. For the next three and a half years the Allies launched a variety of attacks to remove Germany s last serious surface threat. The Germans, for their part, had learned not to pit their super battleships against the strength of the entire Home Fleet outside the range of protecting aircraft. Thus they kept Tirpitz hidden within fjords along the Norwegian coast, like a Damocles Sword hanging over the Allies maritime jugular, forcing the British to assume...
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