In 1942, two and a half years into the Second World War, the British were facing a problem.

While the British Navy mostly commanded the Atlantic Ocean, the Germans had one significant advantage.

The battleship Tirpitz, the largest European military

warship ever created at that time by total tonnage. Rather than attack the

Tirpits head on, which could be quite costly, they came up with an alternate plan which would effectively limit the effectiveness of the battleship.

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The Tierpitz was a monster battleship.

He would be the largest European battleship ever put to see.

Only the Yamato-class battleships of Imperial Japan and the Iowa-class battleships of the United States

would ever be larger.

It was part of the peak of the age of battleships which would soon be obsolete given the rise of aircraft carriers.

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