The sinking of Tirpitz was more than the loss of a battleship—it was a psychological blow to Nazi Germany. With the Arctic threat removed, Allied convoys were safer and the age of giant surface ...

The German battleship Tirpitz was a constant threat to Allied merchant ships from 1942. On November 12, 1944, the ship was sunk off the coast of Tromsø, where it had been lying damaged since being ...