In September 1943, British X-craft midget submarines slipped into heavily defended Norwegian waters to attack Tirpitz, Hitler’s most valuable warship. After passing nets, patrols, and minefields, two ...
In 1943, the German battleship Tirpitz loomed as a constant threat to Allied convoys in the Arctic. Too well-defended for a conventional assault, the Royal Navy turned to a daring plan—sending X-class ...