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Why Britain Couldn't Leave the Tirpitz Alone

Credits and sources for this video.

Images (41)

• Halifax W1048 (30624777968)
  Jeremy Oakley. CC BY 2.0, cropped.
• Halifax W1048 (44494470781)
  Jeremy Oakley. CC BY 2.0, cropped.
• A sailor aboard HMS FURIOUS chalks a message on a bomb slung beneath an aircraft due to take part in the attack on the TIRPITZ in Alten Fjord, Norway, 3 April 1944. A22640
  Hudson, F A (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Admiral Tovey and KGVI on HMS KGV IWM A 8724
  Priest, L C (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Aerial reconnaissance photograph of Alten Fjord during World War II A19624
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Basil Charles Godfrey Place VC IWM A 21799
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Battlehip Tirpitz capsized at Tromso c1944
  Sqn.Ldr. F.L. Dodd, and P/O A. Hill, No. 544 Squadron RAF. Public domain, cropped.
• Battleship Tirpitz off Kiel Sept 1941
  Australian armed forces. Public domain, cropped.
• Campeltown being converting
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Cañones del acorazado Tirpitz
  Author unknown. Public domain, cropped.
• Donald Cameron VC IWM A 21798
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Escorts and merchant ships at Hvalfjord in Iceland before the sailing of Convoy PQ 17 to Russia, May 1942. PQ 17 was decimated by U-boats and the Luftwaffe. A8953
  Royal Navy official photographer, Ware C J (Lt). Public domain, cropped.
• Fairey Albacore aircraft taking off from HMS Victorious to attack the German battleship Tirpitz on 9 March 1942
  Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Fairey Albacores armed with torpedoes before being launched from HMS Victorious to attack Tirpitz on 9 March 1942
  Parnall, C H (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Fairey Barracuda of 827 Squadron being armed for a raid on the German battleship Tirpitz during Operation Goodwood A25437
  Frederick Alfred Davies. Public domain, cropped.
• Fleet Air Arm attack the battleship Tirpitz
  RN official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Fleet Air Arm personnel fusing bombs for Fairey Barracudas on the flight deck of HMS VICTORIOUS, before Operation 'Tungsten', the attack on the German battleship TIRPITZ in Alten Fjord, Norway, April 1944. TR1812
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• German battleship Tirpitz evading torpedoes during Operation Sportpalast
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• German battleship Tirpitz partly covered by a smokescreen at Kaafjord A22634
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• HMS Belfast during the Second World War A20689
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• HMS Hood (51) - March 17, 1924
  Photographer: Allan C. Green 1878 - 1954 Restoration: Adam Cuerden Please credit both. Public domain, cropped.
• NH 71402 (22502381875)
  National Museum of the U.S. Navy. Public domain, cropped.
• Operation Chariot- the Raid on St Nazaire, 27-28 March 1942 C3317A
  Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Royal Air Force 1939-1945- Bomber Command CH17863
  Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1939-1945. MH30802
  Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH15363
  Stanley Arthur Devon. Public domain, cropped.
• Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945. CH17864
  Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Royal Navy Submarines in Holy Loch, Scotland, 1942 TR612
  Ministry of Information official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• St Nazaire 1942 aerial
  RAF. Public domain, cropped.
• Tallboy bomb dropped on Watten bunker 1944
  No. 617 Squadron RAF. Public domain, cropped.
• Tallboy bomb dump 1944
  Not stated. Public domain, cropped.
• The battleship HMS DUKE OF YORK in heavy seas on a convoy escort operation to Russia, March 1942. A8145
  Claude Henry Parnall. Public domain, cropped.
• The Royal Navy during the Second World War A22111
  Beadell, S J (Lt), Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• The Second World War 1939 - 1945- Great Britain- Personalities A20791
  Royal Navy official photographer, Smith Wales (Capt). Public domain, cropped.
• The Wreck of the Tirpitz, June 1945 by Stephen Bone IWM IWM LD 5441
  Stephen Bone. Public domain, cropped.
• Tirpitz altafjord
  Author unknown. Public domain, cropped.
• Tirpitz at Tromso fjord in November 1944
  Not stated in the AWM's database. The photographer would have been a Royal Australian Air Force airman serving with the units involved in the Operation Catechism attack on Tirptiz which took place on 12 November 1944.. Public domain, cropped.
• Tromsö, Royal Air Force Bomber Command, 1942-1945 CL2830
  Daventry B J (Flt Lt), Royal Air Force official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945 MH26392
  Cecil Beaton. Public domain, cropped.
• X craft crewman WWII IWM A 30568
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.
• X-craft Personnel. February 1944 A21686
  Royal Navy official photographer. Public domain, cropped.

Thumbnail

• Tallboy bomb dropped on Watten bunker 1944
  No. 617 Squadron RAF. Public domain, cropped, modified.
• Winston Churchill with his Chiefs of Staff in the garden of 10 Downing Street, 7 May 1945 (IWM TR 2842)
  War Office official photographer. Public domain, cropped, modified.

Films (9)

• Combat Bulletin No. 30 (US Army Air Forces, 1944)
  Combat Bulletin No. 30 (1944), US Army Air Forces / Department of Defense, via the Internet Archive (FedFlix). CC0.
• United News "The German battleship Tirpitz is bombed and sunk" (1944)
  United News, "The German battleship Tirpitz is bombed and sunk" (1944), US National Archives, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0. CC0.
• Operation Catechism — film de l'avion-caméra (12 November 1944)
  Film of Operation Catechism, No. 463 Squadron RAAF, 12 November 1944, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
• Universal Newsreel "RAF Sinks Tirpitz" (22 November 1944)
  Universal Newsreel "RAF Sinks Tirpitz" (22 November 1944), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
• Operation Titanic (US Army Signal Corps, 1944)
  Operation Titanic (1944), US Army, US National Archives (ARC 35904), via the Internet Archive (FedFlix). CC0.
• Universal Newsreel "Big Convoy To Russia Beats Off Nazis" (19 October 1942, convoi PQ 18)
  Universal Newsreel "Big Convoy To Russia Beats Off Nazis" (19 October 1942), via the Internet Archive (universal_newsreels). Public domain.
• Universal Newsreel "A Great Day For The Kellys" (27 April 1944), sujet 3 "Tirpitz Bombed"
  Universal Newsreel "A Great Day For The Kellys" (27 April 1944), segment "Tirpitz Bombed", via the Internet Archive (universal_newsreels). Public domain.
• Film of the 15 September 1944 attack on the German battleship Tirpitz
  Film of the 15 September 1944 attack on the German battleship Tirpitz, No. 463 Squadron RAAF, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.
• Operation Paravane — film de la RAAF (15 September 1944)
  Film of Operation Paravane, No. 463 Squadron RAAF, 15 September 1944, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

Music

• Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique' - I. Adagio - Allegro non troppo (Musopen Symphony)
  Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Public domain.
• Brahms - Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - II. Andante moderato (Musopen Symphony)
  Johannes Brahms. Public domain.
• Beethoven - Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' - II. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai (Musopen Symphony)
  Ludwig van Beethoven. Public domain.
• Chopin - Nocturne No. 21 in C minor, B. 108 (Diana Hughes)
  Frédéric Chopin. Public domain.

Sources (24)

• Gary Haines (archivist), "Target the Tirpitz", RAF Museum blog, 6 November 2019
  rafmuseum.org.uk/blog/target-the-tirpitz
• Mark Baker, "Targeting the Tirpitz", Inside Story, 11 November 2024 (extrait de Buckham's Bombers, Allen & Unwin, 2024); repris par l'Australian Naval Institute
  insidestory.org.au/targeting-the-tirpitz
• José M. Rico, "The Battleship Tirpitz" (chronologie de carrière), site KBismarck
  kbismarck.com/tirpitz.html
• John Sweetman, "Sink the Tirpitz!", Military History Matters n° 121 (The Past, 11 March 2021); auteur de Tirpitz: Hunting the Beast
  the-past.com/feature/sink-the-tirpitz
• site "uboat" (German U-boat Operations during WWII), "PQ-17 – The greatest Convoy disaster"
  uboat.net/ops/convoys/pq-17.htm
• Andrew Knighton, "A World War Two Disaster for the Allies: The Destruction of Convoy PQ 17", War History Online (after Ralph Bennett, Behind the Battle, 1999)
  warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/destruction-pq-17-misjudged-intelligence-led-loss-world-war-two-convoy-m.html
• "PQ 17 July 4th 1942… 2132… "Scatter"", theleansubmariner (blog d'un ancien sous-marinier américain), 5 July 2012
  theleansubmariner.com/2012/07/05/pq-17-july-4th-1942-2132-scatter
• Wikipedia, "Convoy PQ 17" (table "Excerpts of signals between the Admiralty and the First Cruiser Squadron")
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_PQ_17
• Thurgood Marshall Jr. and Peter Goelz, "A Bold Strategy: The British Raid on St. Nazaire", National WWII Museum (New Orleans)
  nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/bold-strategy-british-raid-st-nazaire
• Thurgood Marshall Jr. and Peter Goelz, "The British Raid on St. Nazaire: Part II", National WWII Museum
  nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/british-raid-st-nazaire-part-ii
• Dwight Jon Zimmerman, "Operation Source: The X-craft Raid", Defense Media Network, 15 November 2021 (publié en 2013)
  defensemedianetwork.com/stories/operation-source-the-british-midget-submarine-attack-on-the-tirpitz
• Rachel Lance, "Operation Title — Inside the Daring Mission by Allied Frogmen to Sink a German Battleship", Military History Now, 16 April 2024
  militaryhistorynow.com/2024/04/16/operation-title-the-most-harrowing-attack-that-never-was
• Royal Museums Greenwich, record of the painting by Charles Pears, "The 'Tirpitz' Attacked by Barracudas, 3 April 1944" (BHC0687)
  rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-12179
• Royal Museums Greenwich, record "The Sinking of the 'Bismarck', 27 May 1941" (BHC0679)
  rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-12171
• Marc Montgomery, "History: April 03, 1944; Canadian led attack cripples Tirpitz", Radio Canada International, 3 April 2015
  rcinet.ca/en/2015/04/03/history-april-03-1944-tirpitz-crippled-and-out-of-the-war
• Staples & Vine, "'Sink The Tirpitz' Avro Lancaster" (model kit page, after Osprey, Combat Aircraft 35)
  staplesandvine.com/index.php/aircraft/struck-off-charge/struck-off-charge-dioramas/sink-the-tirpitz
• "These Germans Stationed Near the North Pole Were the Last to Surrender", War History Online
  warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/germans-stationed-near-north-pole-last-surrender-september-1945.html
• "Tirpitz syndrome: is defence procurement broken?", The Ideas Lab (Substack)
  theideaslab.substack.com/p/tirpitz-syndrome-is-defence-procurement
• "Tirpitz played a major role in the war drama in Northern Norway", Northern Norway tourist board (Arctic Norway)
  arcticnorway.com/discover/wwii-and-reconstruction/tirpitz-in-arctic-norway
• "Russia Awards Medals to British Arctic Convoy Veterans", RFE/RL (2013)
  rferl.org/a/russia-arctic-convoys-medal/24934190.html
• Andy Thomas, "How Lancasters sealed the fate of the Tirpitz", Key.Aero (FlyPast)
  key.aero/article/how-lancasters-sealed-fate-tirpitz
• Wartime Memories Project, "Battle of North Cape"; Australian War Memorial, PUB00945 "Survivors of the "Scharnhorst" 26th Dec 1943"
  wartimememoriesproject.com/ww2/battles/battle.php?pid=6783 · awm.gov.au/collection/C1263495
• "Tirpitz", Lokalhistoriewiki (wiki de l'histoire locale norvégienne, Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt)
  lokalhistoriewiki.no/wiki/Tirpitz
• "Fuhrer Naval Conferences, 12-13 April 1944" (English translation of the minutes, Fuehrer Conferences on Naval Affairs), reproduced by KBismarck
  kbismarck.com/fuhrer-conference-12-4-44.html