Tirpitz

In a narrow strip of land and for a short period of time, yes.

Go to Google Earth, N69º38'51"; E18º48'14" . You'll see a number of Tallboy craters, and a bit of Tipitz underwater. The image is a bit dark but that's what there is

 

I knew I had seen it somewhere, but it takes some time to search through 100 feet of bookshelves.

Judging from the progress of the scrapping, I would estimate the picture was taken sometime between 1945 and 1950.

To the left hand side of the shack you can see two Tallboy craters, one under water and one on land. The one on land is still visible today.

To the right hand side of the shack you see a track leading up to a small farm.
A Gedenkmal (memorial) is erected by the track where it reaches the tree line.

Regards
RAM

 

The Tirpitz was a good intimidation tool evening when it was just docked.

A good point of this was the convoy PQ17 from Britain to Russia. If it hadn't of altered course and segmented because they thought the Tirpitz was on their case then their losses would not have been so high.


Edit: here is some information about that convoy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convoy_PQ-17

 

I used to play 'Fighting Steel' as well. I found that I could sink the both the Hood and PoW at times and sometimes would end up 'bottoms up' in short order. I'm not sure 'Fighting Steel' is all that great of a simulator.

My two cents,

Bill

 

This link http://www.archieraf.co.uk/ was written by the grand daughter of a Tobago (WI) Halifax pilot KIA on attack on Tirpitz. It is well researched and though on FS Archibald, her grand dad, it also gives squadron and a/c info.

 

On a business trip to the northern part of Norway I visited a couple of old battlegrounds, one of them was the place where Tirpitz capsized.

There is a memorial, made of a piece of steel from the ship itself, on the shore where she was bombed.

I also found a guestbook with a lot of interesting comments written in it.
However, the book was in a very bad condition. It was placed in a wooden box with a broken lid, so the book was soaking wet from the rain and was falling apart. Some of the ink had dissolved as well.
It would not have survived one more winter in the box, so I decided to take it with me.

Now when it has dried up I'm going to scan all the pages and store them in my computer.
Then I will contact some of my old friends in Tromsø and see if I can find some person, may be our famous WWII historian Kjetil Aakra, who can take care of it. Until then it's safely stored in my archive.

I tried to upload some pics in the Gallery, but I only got this message:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 41943040 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 10200 bytes) in /home/otto/public_html/photopost/image-inc.php on line 103

I wanted to post some of the scanned pages, some of them are quite interesting.
Until I'm able to upload more pics, I will share some with you here.

RAM