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What was Operation Catechism and how did it finally sink the Tirpitz?

An RAF bombing raid on November 12, 1944, using Lancaster bombers carrying 12,000-pound Tallboy bombs, which capsized the Tirpitz in Tromso fjord, Norway

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Operation Gunnerside: The Most Important Sabotage of the War

Nine Norwegian resistance fighters on skis, a freezing mountain plateau, and the decision that may have saved the world from a Nazi atomic bomb.

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