File:Fleet Air Arm attack the battleship Tirpitz.jpg
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editDescriptionFleet Air Arm attack the battleship Tirpitz.jpg | Fleet Air Arm attack the German battleship Tirpitz with heavy and medium sized bombs as she was about to move off from her anchorage at Alten Fjord, Norway, on the morning of 3 April 1944. The Fairey Barracuda bombers were escorted and covered by Supermarine Seafire, Chance-Vought Corsair, Grumman Hellcat, and Grumman Wildcat fighters from HM aircraft carriers of the home fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Henry R Moore, second in command Home Fleet. Photograph shows: The wake of a fast moving motor boat as she hurries away from the battered Tirpitz can be seen as a huge cloud rises from an early bomb hit on the German battleship. During the attack the battleship suffered multiple bomb hits, over one hundred crew members were killed and over three hundred wounded, though the damage was caused to her superstructure and no bombs pierced the armoured deck. |
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Source | Imperial War Museum Collections, Photo No. A 22633 |
Author | RN official photographer |
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Short title | NORWAY-SCIENCE-BOTANY-WWII-TREES |
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Date and time of data generation | 18:02, 9 April 2018 |
Author | STR, - |
City shown | undisclosed |
Credit/Provider | AFP |
Source | NTB Scanpix |
Image title | An aerial picture taken in 1944 during the WWII shows smokes rising from the Tirpitz, Germany's biggest battleship and a bete noir of Britain's wartime leader Winston Churchill following an attack by allied bombers as it sails in a Norwegian fjord. In 1944, allied bombers tried repeatedly to sink the Tirpitz. The Tirpitz and its crew of 2500, in turned out, had retreated into northern Norway's watery labyrinth to escape detection. In the pre-satellite era, even a 250-metre (820-foot) behemoth wasn't that easy to spot. / AFP PHOTO / NTB Scanpix / - / Norway OUT / BLACK AND WHITE |
IIM version | 2 |
Urgency | 5 |
Subject code | Science and technology (13003002) |
Category | Science and technology |
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Keywords | Horizontal |
Special instructions | TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY MARLOWE HOOD / Norway OUT / BLACK AND WHITE |
Date and time of digitizing | 18:02, 9 April 2018 |
Software used | g2mapping/libg2 3.7.1 (Version 3.7.1) |
Code for country shown | NOR |
Country shown | Norway |
Original transmission location code | AG2SCANP001020 |
Language | English |