botched submarine operations, and fierce German defenses, British forces eventually succeeded using precision bombs and unrelenting pressure. The video also explores how the Tirpitz—while rarely ...

Because of the mere fear of the Tirpitz, the Admiralty in London made the entire convoy vulnerable to the very real—and much more dangerous—threat of German submarines and warplanes.

Grand Admiral Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz, creator of the Imperial German Navy, went to a sanitarium in the pine forest back of Munich five weeks ago, tried to shake off an attack of bronchitis.