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Editor says, what if Adolf Hitler had committed more resources to the Kriegsmarine? Please note that the opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect the views of the author(s). This story was published in the July 2012 edition of Changing the Times Magazine.
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In 1942, on this day a jittery Winston Churchill wrote the shortest official memorandum in British history to his First Sea Lord Sir Dudley Pound demanding "Where is TIRPITZ?".
Flugzeugträger Part 6:
Where is TIRPITZ?She was the second of two Bismarck-class battleships built for the German Kriegsmarine. Named after Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the architect of the earlier Kaiserliche Marine, the ship was laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven in November 1936 and her hull was launched two and a half years later.
Deployed in a double carrier group alongside the Peter Strasser and the Graf Zeppelin, her main war-time role was to wreck havoc amongst the Arctic convoys. And of course the source of Churchill's concern was the deteriorating situation on the Eastern Front. Because at first the invasion of Northern Germany and Romania known as the Zhukov Plan had made great progress. But now it was clear that Stalin's assault was premature and his build-up insufficient to defeat the Nazis. And due to the operation of the Kriegsmarine, the Allies problem was getting resupply through to the Russians.
This post shares some commonality with the sister articles in the Flugzeugträger thread.
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Permalinks: Post, Day. Browse Thread: Flugzeugtrager Source: Wikipedia Labels: Plan Z, Kriegsmarine, German Navy, Adolf Hitler, Second World War. Editor says, in out timeline, the reply was reassuring: she was stuck safely in a Norwegian fjord near Trondheim undergoing repairs. Please note that in authoring this post we have repurposed a considerable amount of content from Wikipedia.
~ It's interesting (and a little scary) to contemplate a German two-carrier group operating in the air gap area of the North Atlantic. Long term, though, the German carriers would have became the hunted instead of the hunters as Allied air coverage of the Atlantic improved.
~ Nightmare fuel....
~ Definitely a bigger, badder Battle of the Atlantic.
~ Putting _Tirpitz_ and _Bismarck_ together with two German carriers would have given the RN some real big, bad problems. It took a big chunk of the RN just to take down Bismarck all by herself...imagine if she'd had a friend along that was just as tough and mean, and air cover!
~ It was almost comical how the British Feared the German Battle ships.
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