Of over six hundred commandos and sailors in the raid, more than half were lost during an all-night battle that succeeded, at least, in knocking out the drydock. Nazaire-in order to knock out the last drydock in Europe capable of servicing the Tirpitz. Trying an indirect approach, the British launched one of the war's most daring commando raids-at St. For the next three and a half years, the Allies launched a variety of attacks to remove Germany's last serious surface threat, hidden within fjords along the Norwegian coast. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable of destroying any other battleship afloat, as well as wreaking havoc on Allied troop and supply convoys. 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. “The authors of Bismarck deliver "a very good account of the Tirpitz and of the naval war in the North Atlantic and Norwegian waters" during World War II (NYMAS Review).
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