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The death of the battleship Tirpitz, Bismarck’s sister ship. 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. After three and a half years of allied attacks to remove Germany’s last serious surface threat, the Germans kept Tirpitz hidden within fjords along the Norwegian coast, forcing the British to assume the offensive.
After several unsuccessful attempts to destroy the mighty Tirpitz, it was not until November 1944 that the Tirpitz finally succumbed to British aircraft armed with 10,000-lb Tallboy bombs, the ship capsizing at last with the loss of 1,000 sailors.

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