The Tirpitz was the follow-on sistership of the notorious Bismarck, a monster battleship designed from the get-go to vastly exceed the tonnage-limitations stipulated by the Washington Naval treaty ...

The scars of World War II are still visible today. A new study out looks at how Nazis warped Norwegian trees with poisonous gas to mask one of the largest battleships built for the conflict. Launched ...

Launched in 1939 and commissioned in 1941, the Tirpitz was one of the largest battleships ever built by Germany. Its main armament consisted of eight 15-inch guns mounted in four twin turrets, capable ...

The Nazis regularly used chemical fog to hide its Tirpitz battleship in the Norwegian fjords during World War II. Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia Commons Germany's World War II battleship the Tirpitz, ...

Shortly after 1:00 a.m. on March 28, 1942, a destroyer flying the German flag and 18 smaller boats entered the Loire River estuary and headed for the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire on France's ...

In 1943, the German battleship Tirpitz loomed as a constant threat to Allied convoys in the Arctic. Too well-defended for a conventional assault, the Royal Navy turned to a daring plan—sending X-class ...

The Tirpitz was the Third Reichs ultimate weapon Sister ship to the Bismarck she was the most successful German battleship of WWII She alone had the power to destroy an entire convoy and from 193944 ...

Had Neptune risen from the vasty deep last week and climbed the tribune of the German Reichstag wearing a double nannygoat beard, the sensation could scarcely have exceeded that caused by the “maiden ...

Obsessed with “game-changing” Wunderwaffen (“wonder weapons”) Adolf Hitler squandered vast resources on the development and construction of monster war machines that proved to have little operational ...

Had London simply taken a step back and realized the Germans were disinterested in deploying the Tirpitz from its Norwegian redoubt, they probably could have avoided many mistakes. A marvel of German ...