Word: fjord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alten Fjord. Finally, in September last year, came the night when three X-boats (known to the Royal Navy as "Tiddlers") cruised off into the North Sea, After a voyage of nearly 1,000 miles they reached the mouth of Norway's Alten Fjord...
Then they started a hazardous 60-mile run up the fjord, delicately slipping by every known form of trap, net and guard until they reached the inner anchorage...
First the Tirpitz deck guards knew of the attack was when they saw periscopes breaking water off the beam. Hell broke loose in the fjord; guns thundered, a rain of rifle and machine-gun fire pattered on the small intruders...
...full story of their incredible exploit was published, only last week, when the two commanders were awarded the coveted Victoria Cross. Of the third Tiddler, nothing is known, except that just after the Tirpitz was torpedoed a great explosion was heard farther down the highwalled fjord. Apparently, past the worst of the barriers, she and her gallant crew had found a mine...
...Sept. 22 British midget submarines in Norway's Alten Fjord rammed some torpedoes into Germany's greatest battleship, the 40,000-ton Tirpitz, left her floating in her own oil and out of commission for many months...