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Originally Posted by joea
Thanks very much for the links. Great clips look at the description though.
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The Tirpitz ... was the Third Reich's ultimate weapon. Sister to the Bismarck, she was the most successful WWII German battleship and the pride of Hitler's Navy. Secretly built off the Baltic coast in 1939, the warship spent the next five years terrorising the Allies in the Atlantic and Artic seaways, leaving entire convoys annihilated in her wake.
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 Nope, what about the V-2, Me-262 or the Tiger, or the Type XXI? Also it never sank a single merchant ship...though a case can be made fear of Tirpitz provoked the disaster of Convoy PQ17. |
It wasnt so much what the ship did but what the British in particular thought it could do
Tying up large sections of the fleet just in case it left harbour and leading to actions such as Operation Chariot - to put the dry dock Normandie out of action so Tirpitz couldnt raid the Atlantic and have a safe haven to return to
Wonder what would have happened if the German capital ships had all left port together as a group
Now that would have increased to fear factor