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Tirpitz

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Tirpitz (German) [ˈtɪrpɪts]
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(Biographies / Tirpitz, Alfred von (1849-1930) M, German, MILITARY: admiral) Alfred von (ˈalfreːt fɔn). 1849-1930, German admiral: as secretary of state for the Imperial Navy (1897-1916), he created the modern German navy, which challenged British supremacy at sea


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1944: Tirpitz, last of Hitler's "unsinkable battleships", was sunk off the Norwegian coast by Lancaster bombers.
1944: Tirpitz, last of Hitler's fleet of "unsinkable battleships", was sunk off the Norwegian coast by Lancaster bombers.
It was his interception of a Nazi message that allowed the RAF time to mount a bombing mission to stop the German battleship Tirpitz from causing mayhem in the Atlantic in 1944.
 
 
 
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