In September 1944, RAF squadrons launched an ambitious strike against the German battleship Tirpitz using experimental Johnny ...

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 ...

Key Point: The Tirpitz may have been an inglorious kind of success for having forced the Allies to divert such disproportionate resources to contain and eventually destroy her. At 3 AM on the morning ...

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

In September 1943, a daring midget submarine attack by Royal Navy volunteers succeeded in crippling the mighty German battleship, Tirpitz. Dr Eric Grove examines the mission, including evidence that ...

Shortly after 1:00 a.m. on March 28, 1942, a destroyer flying the German flag and 18 smaller boats entered the Loire River estuary and headed for the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire on France's ...

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 scars of World War II are still visible today. 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 ...

The Tirpitz was the pride of the Nazi navy, the Kriegsmarine. Bigger and younger than her famous sister battleship Bismarck, but built along the same sleek lines and armed with the same formidable ...