English subtitles for clip: File:1944-11-22 RAF Sinks Tirpitz.ogv

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This is the death of the battleship Tirpitz.

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RAF Lancasters roar to the attack.

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And here is the 45,000-ton pride of the German Navy,

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firing desperately at the air raiders.

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A six-ton armor-piercing blockbuster is on its way.

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The Tirpitz is mortally hit, but replies with everything,

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including 15-inch guns, in this climactic battle

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of Tromsø fjord in Norway.

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Another near-hit! The RAF is scoring after two

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previous unsuccessful attempts from

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Scottish bases 1,200 miles away.

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Another blockbuster heads for the target.

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Perfect weather sweeps away the defensive smoke screen.

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And another hit is registered!

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These RAF pictures show the death agonies of the crippled monster.

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Months of preparation went into the assault.

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The RAF, in sinking the Tirpitz, turned in

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one of its greatest jobs.

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Old man winter has joined the Germans to slow our advance in northern Europe.

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The first snow, combined with mud, are two enemies that can slow down the best mechanized divisions.

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Further to the south, at Konzen, Germans are blasted by our fire.

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A German gun position in a farmhouse is discovered by observers, and they don't live there anymore.

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A withering barrage drives out those still living.

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These are Signal Corps pictures.

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A church steeple is being used by the Germans as a spotting post for their guns,

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and our troops have no alternative but to shell it.

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Shot after shot finds its mark.

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With the Luftwaffe driven from the skies, anti-aircraft units have turned to field artillery fighting,

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using their same guns they helped to rout the enemy from the Hürtgen Forest.

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A barrage covers our advance.

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With no planes to shoot at, these men crave action, and they're getting here aplenty,

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as they aid the infantry in pushing the Germans back.

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California's usual pageantry opens the sixth war loan drive in Los Angeles,

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as motion picture players and Californians join to depict embattled America in her pioneer days.

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The spirit that made our country great is recalled

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during this, the greatest of all her struggles.

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The youth of Los Angeles does its part, and there is only one slogan in this city today,

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"Buy bonds until victory is won."

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Why our men need your money is explained by Secretary Morgenthau:

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"One indispensable source of encouragement to those men is the knowledge that we at home are backing them up with all we have.

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This is our endurance test as well as theirs.

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Our response to the sixth war loan drive will be the vindication to these men of their faith in us."

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Nazi tanks and troops patrol Copenhagen, capital of Denmark, occupied since 1940 when Germany attacked without a declaration of war.

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The peaceful Danes burned with resentment and sabotaged enemy headquarters and Quisling establishments at every opportunity.

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When the Nazis proclaimed a state of siege, the Danish navy rebelled, part of the fleet fled to Sweden, and the rest was scuttled.

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As Danish defiance grew, the Nazis applied their usual brutal methods in an effort to enforce obedience.

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Beatings, killings, and imprisonment in concentration camps were the punishments inflicted on a brave people defending their rights.

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Murdered in the dark by the Gestapo, Kaj Munk, a celebrated Danish priest, poet and dramatist, is buried along with other martyrs to the Danish cause.

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The graves are heaped with tributes from King Christian and his people.

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The king is a prisoner of the Nazis in his castle, but his loyal subjects display the flag from every house in honor of his 73rd birthday.

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One of the stern measures effected by the Nazis was to smash the plate glass windows in Copenhagen stores, glass almost impossible to replace.

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The stars and stripes, symbol of the Allied promise of liberation, flies above scenes of the Danish program of sabotage.

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The Danes stage a general strike tying up transportation and shutting down German war factories.

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But in spite of beatings, killings, curfews, and starvation tactics, the Danes would not give in.

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It was the Nazis finally who had to bow to Danish courage.

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Still occupied by the enemy, Denmark bravely awaits the day of complete freedom.