On December 31st, 1942, six British destroyers charged directly at a German heavy cruiser and pocket battleship in the Arctic ...
Nonetheless, the German plan actually worked in one respect—the transports had fled south towards Lutzow. The pocket battleship unloaded 161 shells at the Allied ships at ranges of three to seven ...
In the prevailing low visibility, however, the German destroyers Richard Beitzen and Eckoldt mistook the British cruisers for the German ones, and fell into formation beside them. The gunners on the ...
On 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 ...
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