File:Fleet Air Arm attack the battleship Tirpitz.jpg

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Description Fleet Air Arm attack the German battleship Tirpitz with heavy and medium sized bombs as she was about to move off from her anchorage at Alten Fjord, Norway, on the morning of 3 April 1944. The Fairey Barracuda bombers were escorted and covered by Supermarine Seafire, Chance-Vought Corsair, Grumman Hellcat, and Grumman Wildcat fighters from HM aircraft carriers of the home fleet under the command of Vice Admiral Sir Henry R Moore, second in command Home Fleet. Photograph shows: The wake of a fast moving motor boat as she hurries away from the battered Tirpitz can be seen as a huge cloud rises from an early bomb hit on the German battleship. During the attack the battleship suffered multiple bomb hits, over one hundred crew members were killed and over three hundred wounded, though the damage was caused to her superstructure and no bombs pierced the armoured deck.
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Source Imperial War Museum Collections, Photo No. A 22633
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