The Hunt for Tirpitz, 42-44 - Animated 

The Operations Room I think so. As you mentioned. If they hadn’t of rid the threat the RN would have had to keep a large fleet to protect the convoy and it was needed elsewhere. Until she was sunk there was a risk she to the convoys. Once sunk resources could be moved to other theatres.

Every effort should be made to stop war machines in the time of war, kill one ship save tens and thousands of lives, if not 100's of thousands

Probably due to the propaganda coup for the allies and decimated german navy morale.

@@PCTechHub I disagree, It took so long and so many sortie, having a few escort light carrier doing aircraft patrol could have been enough to deter the Kriegsmarine to commit the Tirpitz. Those large fleet that patrolled the north sea for 2 years could have been more useful elsewhere like you said, so having them there up until 1944 were naval power wasn't as crucial by then, was not efficient.

If the RAF and royal navy hadn't made such an effort to sink her and let her roam freely ,how much damage would she of caused to the convoy fleets going to the USSR , how many allied sailers lives would be lost , and the supplies that the USSR desperately needed may of caused a different outcome in the war there if they didn't get what was needed

and it's not like you can easily dredge it clean with all the ammunition around there. hadn't heard about that tibit though i'm gonna see if i can find more about it.

Sad and super interesting. Where are you from? Btw, I heard that Norway once had to drain a mercury lake left by a u boat on the sea bottom

@@fabiovezzari2895That's kinda correct. In Norway we have an u-boat at the bottom of the sea off the island of Fedje, U-864. The u-boat has mercury on board, and little has been done. There is an ongoing debate about whether to cover the u-boat with stone, or to take the u-boat to the surface and dispose of the mercury. Also, the German u-boat U-684 was sunk by the British submarine HMS Venturer underwater :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-864

Also, the trees have stunted growth in their rings around where the Tirpitz laid.

I Will use this opportunity to thank every person who helped us during the war, giving us our freedom back. A bigger thank you than i can write down. Thank you everybody who helped us win back our freedom, so thank you England - France-The 99th division from USA (AMERICAN - NORWEGIANS) - YUGOSLAVIANS- SWEDISH - FINNISH SOLDIERS AND MANY MOORE. THANK YOU! EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU. MANY OF YOU GAVE YOUR LIFE. IT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. 🇺🇸 🇧🇻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇪🇦🇺🇨🇦🇩🇰🇵🇱🇫🇷🇮🇹 All the flags represented helped us give Hitler his first bloody nose when Narvik was taken back from the Fucking NAZIS nazis. England France and the free polish soldiers were the Heroes in Narvik +Norwegians and some other nordic neighbours.

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I find so fascinating that a big part of the naval battles of wwii occured at the borders of the world, in the arctic regions

We just visited Tromsø in November. My son did a semester at the University. We Drove close to the spot it sank off Håkøya. Unfortunately, as you know, the snow came early this year and we couldn’t see the craters. Tromsø is a wonderful place! Lucky you

@@miketaylorID1 I can inform you that the snow is also leaving late this year - cause it's still there! 😅

Oh no! I need to visit again when the snow is gone I think. I cannot let my son visit again. He says he will not come back.!!

God bless you and him .They don't make them like your grandfather generation no more .

A true hero - indeed RIP Sir.

Wow, your sam Thompson's grandson, I've read about him May he rest in peace, a brave man and an honour to be able to give thanks to you a member of his family for his service.

What life, may we all be so lucky. Rest in peace sir.

My Father and Uncles also served. . Total respect for that generation

Me neither!

The Operations Room what’s next? I need another. Feed my addiction.

But why PQ-17 convoy battle didn't mention? Or do you plan to make a separate video about it?

Yeah separate video. This one was very busy as it is!

Next is Op Linebacker II. My first trip to Nam

That is pretty cool man

Here is a hint of truth. Noone cares. Stop trying to be relevant for something someone else did. My neighbour had a dog who hunted a cat is just as valuable of a story as your bullshit

"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it" or your sh*tty abridged version "no one cares" really what the hell are you doing on a channel about history, sh*tting on those who talk about history

@@Xingmey Well, he didn't say anything related to "being relevant". Wtf men.

@@Xingmey someone isn't loved

Yeah SWEDISH. IT'S THE ONLY REASON THE NAZIS LET SWEDEN STAY NEUTRAL, SO LONG AS THEY SUPPLIED THE QUALITY STEEL THEY NEEDED FOR ARMAMENTS.

@@MrDaiseymay DON'T SHOUT!!

@@MrDaiseymay Have you got a hearing aid?

also i saw a documentary about the mass scuttling by the captains of about 50 captured german warships in a harbour near scotland as they rather sink them rather than hand them over to their victors - the documentary said that the steel of the sunken german boats was produced before Hiroshima and the huge amounts of oxygen needed to make the steel was pure of any spec of radiation, after the 2 nukes were used in WW2 and with all the testing of nukes around that time and after - the air has been polluted with a tiny spec of radiation and any steel produced from then now has a spec of radiation which they said is rubbish and the pre-nuke steel was so pure it is used in modern scientific lab equipment as its radiation free - mental or what

@@MrDaiseymay The steel wasn't swedish, you're talking about the iron ore.

When its brother sunk the pride of the British Royal Navy in a single shot and took a literal ton of ordinance before it finally sank, it becomes more understandable.

@JT: If Tirpitz had been sunk during the early and critical stages of the Battle of the Atlantic like the Bismarck was, it would have been a far more useful accomplishment. But, by the time she was destroyed at anchor in 1944, the war had long past her by, and her demise was more about the futility of and the complete bankruptcy of the idea of any single weapons systems being expected to resist the massed technical and industrial output of the Allies than the sinking being a great victory or feat of Allied arms. The 1000 or so German sailors who died when it capsized, and the members of the defending AA crews were sacrificed for nothing.

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@Arnold Squirrel and the only thing that wasn't wrong with the Tiger I's was their transmission. yeah buddy, just because you say something doesn't mean it's true.

@Arnold Squirrel we appear to be at an impasse. well, you can waste your breath on this as much as you want, I'm not going to waste any more time on this, there's a guy on another video that i need to go Troll the hell out of.

@@sg-yq8pm Its a meme my dude. Didn't you watch Pirates of the Caribbean?

@@sg-yq8pm uncultured swine

@@sg-yq8pm whoooooosh

@@sg-yq8pm Dear god, PoTC is AMAZING, you really need to watch it

didnt that junkie hitler get a telegram about this. Fucking tard. Hope his ass got blown to pissssses

German engineering at it's finest

@@winter1353 USS Yorktown would like to have a word with you

@@captiancholera8459 Honestly both are damn good ships, definitely good engineering on both sides.

​@@mr.b4494 Immagine what mankind would have accomplished if all the great minds behind those creations worked TOGETHER for a non destructive, common goal in a combined effort: US Economics, German engineering, Japanese diciplin, russian manpower... Guess there could be a point made for every nation out there, so sorry if I didn't mention your 'homeland'.

@@captiancholera8459 No my friend, no comparison at all. It took 26 attacks involving over 1000 planes plus 4 midget u-boats to take the Tirpitz down. A percentage of what hit this battleship would have blown the carrier out of the water.

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@@TheOperationsRoom Eagerly waiting for the Battle of Narvik. ^^

Did you search for this? 🤔

@@Silvia-ye3oj Saw Op Room’s video on Laffey, sorted the videos by popular and started watching.

It must have been the same chaps that came up with the idea of stuffing an entire ship with high explosives and ramming it into a German dry dock gate. Which was made from something like 15' of reinforced concrete. No known bomb could hurt them. Even Tallboys. So they filled a ship with explosives instead and rammed it the gate. But before blowing up the ship, they came up with the idea of British Commandos jumping off the bomb ship and rushing the dry docks. Blowing up as many U-Boats and there dens as possible then fighting their way up a super long dock to escape on smaller boats that would follow them in. They had to next invent Commando's, which they did. This place they atracked has something like 15,000 German troops stationed there and giant guns lining the sea path for miles. They disguised their ship to make it have a German silhouette to try to get by the guns which kind of worked until it didn't. Imagine reading this plan and then getting the approval to do it. About a third of the Commando's were able to escape after the raid. About a third were captured when they ran out of bullets and the rest were all shot down in firefights. The host of Top Gear was dating the daughter of one of the Commando's who was in this raid and did a documentary on it. Crazy story.

@@GabrielKish operation chariot? The greatest raid of all? "There's no use in ramming a stout gate with a ship like that" said the commander of the German garrison to the captured commandos, grinning. But just then... There was a _bang_

Can you please give more information? VC?

@@joeverna5459 Victoria Cross my dude

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Cameron_(VC)

The minisubs succeeded in taking the Tirpitz out of the war. After their successful attack, she was no longer seaworthy.

That's interesting, has it stained the wood in the trees?

The Operations Room She was moved from Kåfjord before her sinking so the 20% of her is in the Tromsø fjord where she was sunk. The impact on the trees isn’t visible per se, but when they study the growth rings, they see no growth for 9 years because of the chlorosulphuric acid that was used as smokescreen damaged the needles of the trees so they couldn’t photosynthesise. It took the trees 30 years to reach normal growth cycle.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UNEXPLODED ''TALLBOY BOMBS'' ETC. WHO VOLUNTEERD FOR THAT JOB?

Philip Croft Some of them landed on land and exploded, there are still craters there from that. The unexplored ones probably disintegrated on impact.

@@MrDaiseymay DON'T SHOUT!

More expensive not to sink them

Think of the expense of losing that size of ship also along with the problems it would cause if not taken out of the contest.

the naval force had nothing else to do

Its not “just” a battleship. I honestly dont understand how people dont know the tripitz was the heaviest and strongest ship the kreigsmarine (nazi germany) ever made. It surpassed that of the bismarck.

there is only one winner in war. The company that supplies the ammo

Yea imagine those sailors. I bet they wanted to go home after getting raided almost daily.

I can’t tell if this is a troll or not but something that is breaking the sound barrier would not be audible until it already hit you

Acktchually

@@Freyja666 *Ackchyually

@@danielkelly1335 calm down neckbeard UwU

My grandmother told about after one attack, truckloads of dead Germans were driven past their house. And the town Alta. Entire town burned. Every bride blown. Not even e telephone pole was left standing. Two churches only.

The biggest cost is human life.

A beast that never got to roar.

no german or axis losses were losses at all, humanity improved every time axis soldiers took their last breath

Scharnhorst was sunk by ship-launched torpedoes, as was Bismarck (some argument whether the Germans scuttled her) and the heavy cruiser Blucher was sunk by a land-based torpedo battery. Numerous British ships were sunk by U-boat torpedoes, including Royal Oak, Ark Royal and Barham. Modern torpedoes are designed to explode directly beneath a ship, causing them to 'break their back'. It was the torpedo that truly rendered the battleship obsolete; aircraft were just the most effective platform from which to launch this weapon during the Second World War.

@@DomWeasel Bismarck was crippled by aerial torpedoes tho

@@flufflepuffle6229 Bismark sank after the torps yes but that was after about 7 ships pelted it for quite a while and they tried to scuttle it too

@@flufflepuffle6229 Bismarck's rudder was damaged an aerial torpedo but the hull remained sound and the guns active. The battleships King George V and Rodney and the heavy cruisers Norfolk and Dorsetshire fired on Bismarck, devastating the upperworks of the ship but not causing a knockout blow below the waterline. That came when Dorsetshire used its torpedoes.

Exactly, but It was pleasant for the crews. Because they were not going to evacuate the ship after a few shots at the hull, they were expected to live a heavy fire all over the deck and super structure, since the hull was too thick for the enemy

I’ve just found out that my great uncle William Murray had the same job as Alan and was also on HMS Furious. I’ve just listened to an interview of Alan telling his stories of squadron 830. He must have known my Uncle. Sadly he was killed 24th April 1944 shot down by flak and we know that the aircraft wreckage was located in 1980 but that’s all we know. I would love to read Alan’s book, his recall was just incredible. I’m so sorry to hear he has passed away, I cried listening to his stories. What a man

Germany had some poor leadership, much of it in their navy...this example just proves it again.

Well there was operation tengo with Yamato vs 386 American planes.

@@cactusman1771 yamato and the bismarck class were given a lot of attention, with only two of them being actual menaces, tirpitz only sunk ship was during training and it is the SMS Hessen

pretty sure the yamato was similiar

pearl harbour

Should of hid it in a stream or puddle

@@myview5840 if we had been the generals back then the world would be a different place

But we did sink them both with limited losses. The Bismark and Tirpitz achieved very little, sank very little, cost a fortune and got shot to pieces.

It’s the fact they went from 1500 to 12000 for me

Funny thing is, by the end of the war, the 12000lb tallboy wasn't the biggest bomb in the British arsenal 😂 The British would go on to make what I have been told is the biggest non nuclear explosive of the war known as the "Grand slam" which was a 22000 pound bomb

@@thatguyonyoutubemk2746 if I’m correct I’m sure that’s the bomb that creates an earthquake when exploded due to the force?

@@masterfletcher616 yeah, the 12000lb tallboy that sunk Tirpitz was one of those 'earthquake bombs' aswell, the grand slam was basically just an upscale on the tallboy by an entire 10000 lb

@@masterfletcher616 actually, I missed a part of what you said. It's not called an earthquake bomb because of the force, it's called an earthquake bomb because of how it uses the force. An earthquake bomb was designed to be dropped near a target and its weight would ensure that it would end up underground. It wouldn't explode immediately, they were usually on a timer (if I remember rightly that timer was something like 30 mins). Since it had buried itself underground the immense force created by the bomb would create a small cavern which would undermine the foundations of a building or shake them apart through the shockwave, hence "Earthquake"

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not really it was stupid - it was stupid that the Germans knew how much of threat the ship was to convoys ( it would never have engaged the British " HOME" fleet ) The Germans never protected it with air-cover - 50 - 100 fighters stationed would have protected it at first - then adding more if needed . Could they spare them ? probably not but they lost a massive tactical option losing their FLEET - even though small by UK, American ,Japanese standards ..... they were well made and very very accurate The STAKE was starving Russia of resources - and to do that was to raid the convoys - with Uboats and a small fleet with fighter cover . breaking Russia would have been very good for Germany - they just needed to take the major cites - and then starve them into submission .. Hitler bit off more than he could chew invading Russia - and not having a navy fleet of size was a mistake

@@stevearno100 the mistake was when Hitler was born and when he declared war on Poland

@@daralcampbell2171 lol ....the Hitler not being born . He was though The trouble lays with "Power" = global dominance . The British Empire was falling apart this created instability within the world . Every moment in time there has seen dominance from the beginning of raping and pillaging another village for elevation. The first world War was Germany's first go to supersede the British empire but it failed . The 2nd World War was the next go . it may well have happened without Hitler, as the emotion of the population would have been still there to capitalise on . But you could be right , what we could have got without Hitler vs the emotion that facilitates expansionist ideas could have been more colonialism = a more friendly expansionist dream . The world tires of expansion of power- for centuries the British empire was sowing its own demise via trying to stop power grabs from emerging empires . Alot of countries it invaded was purely so other empires couldn't have them . I.could.add.a.mountain to the above,.its very complex vs time.. What should be worrying about daral .though .. is what is going to hqppen when America loses.ita grip.and all.thw allies of the most dominant force ( Canada and UK to name.but 2 ) are sucked it with it and we will be . It's all.pretty close right NOW - with Ukraine a EU expansion dream failed by Russia. The EU is a creation of a.power base . Emerging powers China, India etc etc If it does kick off over Ukraine ( very unlikely due to.its nature- the west will let Russia take.ukraine) ...will Russia been seen by history as the HITLER ? But what about the EU power grab less.than a decade before.it that created russias need

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You could replace 'Tirpitz' with 'Bismarck' and the formula would still work.

Haha very funny! Its so funny that i forgot to laugh! Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha! 😐

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Always well done

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There was more sorrow to come for them, even after the war.

You're welcome!

Glad you like them! Also - *creator* :)

The cost was minimal compared to the ship's total cost,.

Very kind, thanks. More coming! I'm releasing a shorter Gary Powers video shortly. My next large video will be Operation Linebacker II

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It was!

You do realize that the Kriegsmarine never had the intention to send Tirpitz out into the Atlantic not after what happened to Bismarck

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How and when did they get the bodies out? That's a job that gets worse the longer you wait and i can't imagine who had to go in there and do that?

@@PACstove i just know that he took part in it. He passed away years ago and Ive just heard stories from my parents about it. So I dont know the exact details about it