Word: tirpitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans have already trundled the bomb-damaged hulk of the battleship Tirpitz from Altenfjord south to Tromsö, where the R.A.F. found it and hit it again with a six-ton bomb...
...this action was evident. A year ago carriers could not have penetrated Norwegian waters without grave risk; the Nazis were keeping up a stout cover of land-based fighters over the shipping which must supplement Norway's rudimentary railroad system. The carrier-borne attack which crippled the Tirpitz showed that the cover was thinning. Last week's communique indicated that it was practically nonexistent. The Germans needed all their fighters to protect the heartland...
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...
...Tiddlers' torpedoes had been well and truly aimed. As they struck home there was an enormous explosion; the majestic bulk of the battleship lifted several feet in the air. The Tirpitz sagged back into the water, buckled and pierced. She was no longer a fighting ship...
...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...