Battleship "Tirpitz" (Conway Maritime Modeller's)

by Gerhard Koop (Author), Klaus-PeterSchmolke (Author)

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  Paperback
  1998

  $10.62

  The second in a series designed for modellers, this is a complete guide to the German battleship Tirpitz , from original ship to detailed model. The Tirpitz weighed 42,500 tonnes and was the sister ship of Bismarck . For three years, she was based in Norwegian waters posing a contniuous threat to British convoys to Northern Russia. She only once fired her heavy guns in anger and that was during a raid on Spitzbergen in September 1943. Anchored deep in a Norwegian fjord, she was eventually sunk by high-level bombing by the Royal Air Force.