Operation Catechism marked the decisive end to the menace of the German battleship Tirpitz during World War 2. On November 12 ...

At 3 AM on the morning of November 13, 1944, three airfields in Scotland resonated to a low bass thrum as Rolls-Royce Merlin engines came roaring to life. Over the course of a half-hour, thirty-two ...

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 ...

Description: Operation Tungsten aimed to neutralize the threat of Battleship Tirpitz to Allied convoys and strategic ...

(WHTM) — This is the story of how an American-made destroyer serving in the British Navy attacked a French port to help neutralize Nazi Germany’s most powerful warship-and it has a local connection.

The German battleship Tirpitz was a constant threat to Allied merchant ships from 1942. On November 12, 1944, the ship was sunk off the coast of Tromsø, where it had been lying damaged since being ...

On September 15, 1944, a 23 year-old Lancaster bomber pilot named Lawrence Goodman set off with his squadron on an ambitious mission: to drop a 12,000 pound bomb known as the “Tallboy” on German ...

Norman Denning, a British intelligence officer from one of Hampshire’s most talented families, played a crucial role in determining the fate ...