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SC006 - Edition 2500 - November 1944
Battleship Tirpitz
The Tirpitz has been sunk by a force of 29 Lancasters of the RAF in Tromsö Fjord, Norway, using 12,000 pound ‘Earthquake’ bombs. This is the culmination of a long process of attacks on the infamous German battleship. Last April she was bombed by a force of Fairey Barracudas in a surprise attack as she lay in Alten Fjord.
This was the third attack on the battleship using 12,000 lb bombs, but it was the first time that the bombers could see the ship clearly.
On 12 November, speaking of the final destruction of the Tirpitz, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary for Air, said, ‘This brilliant feat of arms was accomplished by British crews, aiming with a British bombsight of extraordinary complexity, ingenuity and accuracy, a 12,000 lb bomb of British design and manufacture from a British Lancaster - the only aircraft in the world which could carry that bomb’.
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