The Air Raid that Crippled Battleship Tirpitz: Operation Tungsten, 1944 - Animated

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Operation Tungsten aimed to neutralize the threat of Battleship Tirpitz to Allied convoys and strategic redeployment. Motivated by fears of Tirpitz's potential attacks on vital supply convoys to the Soviet Union, the British Home Fleet meticulously prepared for four months before launching the raid on March 30, 1944...
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[@agatus3264]

My grandad served aboard HMS Emperor and I remember him telling me little about the raid and some of the photos he managed to get from the airmen involved.

[@blitzy3244]

He's rolling in his grave at the current state of England

[@Phantom2316]

The respect and admiration I have for these men to go to the middle of no where on a ship and take off from that ship and attack your enemy and land back on your ship, in 1944!!!!!! Fearless, greatest generation

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Thank you an amazing ( house of history) channel for sharing this magnificent video about Terppitz German battleship survival in 1943....through British Tungsten operation .. two waves of aircraft's bombarding... deciplined and fanatic of German sailors ⛵️ was miracle

[@HoH]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bishop6218]

It's interesting to note how well informed was the Admiralty about Tirpitz's repair and trials schedule don't you think ? Vive la Résistance ! 😁

[@TallDude73]

Amazing how much effort the Allies expended to get rid of one ship. The British Navy was so superior in numbers you'd think there would be nothing to fear, and yet the Tirpitz tied up a lot of resources, without doing much in the end.

[@HoH]

That is what amazed me as well. The Allies really threw everything they had at the battleship.

[@garykubodera9528]

The British Naval Command recognized just how dangerous the Tirpitz really was! Especially if working in coordination with the many German U-boats to seriously attack and destroy the allied shipping supplies. One or two hits from the main guns was more than enough to destroy many merchant supply ships-just think about how one shell took out the battleship Hood-the pride of the British Navy. That's why they threw everything they could to take the Tirpitz out as quickly as possible.

[@KainWT]

@@garykubodera9528not to mention it’s much faster than any merchant ship. If it got in the middle of a convoy it could destroy and run down every single ship with ease.

[@unclenogbad1509]

The reason is very simple, and is the same for the Kriegsmarine's other capital ships. A fully functioning Tirpitz in Altenfjord was in the perfect position to devastate those vital Arctic convoys. Accurate large guns that could out-range escort ships and sink any merchantman with a single hit, combined with it's speed and manoeuvrability made it a threat that had to be stopped. The allied blockade of German shipping had effectively won the First World War, so it makes perfect sense that Germany would try to do the same thing on Britain (and Russia) in the Second. Hence the Royal Navy throwing everything they had into destroying any and all of those battleships. The consequence of not doing so would have been dire.

[@Wanderer628]

@@garykubodera9528 It's not really something to credit the Tirpitz specifically with. Literally any post dreadnought battleship could have been present and the British would have had to devote resources to containing it. It's the whole premise of fleet in being strategy. Hood was a one in a million shot, ironically hitting a part of the ship that was due for armour upgrades in weeks if it hadn't been forced to leave port. That was proven when in all subsequent battles, no German battleship was able to repeat the feat.

[@mk1gti]

Thanks very much for covering this, I'm a military history nerd and this is just an incredible series of videos to watch!

[@WW...conquest]

This is one of my favourite channels.

[@mad2477]

Lovely vid - well done & thanks

[@Matt-kl1pg]

Hope you plan to cover the Lancaster raid on the Tirpitz

[@KHK001]

Amazing video as always!

[@rodgerscott6405]

Outstanding work. Well done.

[@dimosthenistserikis5901]

With every new video, the animations get better and better.! Great video, as always, much love!❤

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content! Thanks For this! These naval battles are amazing

[@julio5prado]

Remarkably well done! Thanks!

[@HoH]

Thank you!

[@briz7640]

7:02 When UK sent her 6 aircraft carriers to deal with 1 battleship, the fate of Tirpitz was already sealed

[@andrewnatt1448]

Excellent vid, thanks

[@HoH]

Thanks Andrew, glad you think so!

[@brokenbridge6316]

These video's are giving me some idea on how much Churchill wanted Tirpitz gone.

[@Jailbird-Soundy]

5:50 the designation of the Wildcat is F4F, not F6F. The F6F is the Hellcat. Nice video, keep up the good work :)

[@gruffythrone988]

Great content and another brilliant video

[@garykubodera9528]

The British Naval Command recognized just how dangerous the Tirpitz really was! Especially if working in coordination with the many German U-boats to seriously attack and destroy the allied shipping convoys and supplies. One or two hits from the main guns was more than enough to destroy many merchant supply ships-just think about how one shell took out the battleship Hood-the pride of the British Navy at the time That's why they threw everything they could to take the Tirpitz out as quickly as possible.

[@recoil53]

They really didn't throw everything they had at her. More like the leftovers. Any capital ship, even a warmed over WWI battlecruiser would have been deadly to a cargo ship. A salvo would have only been deadly to one ship at a time. Really a cruiser would have done it. The Hood is a particularly bad example, being "the pride of the fleet" is a meaningless statement. She had the poor armor of a real battlecruiser and her armor was not fully updated. She was a far too heavy for her actual speed/armor/guns and a waste of steel and manpower. Well the Bismarck class was. Some submarines and purpose built cruisers would have been better. It was more the fact that yes, she could potentially sortie out that was the issue - her specs weren't it. And so resources that could be used to support a landing would be tied up to guard against her. If the Tirpitz was so deadly, why was she holed up except for one or two sorties?

[@legoeasycompany]

Seeing all these attempts to sink/cripple/damage Tirpitz it's amazing how many times the coordination between the services was let down and ended up with her being damaged in some ways. It's amazing because I can't recall during any of the operations where the Luftwaffe ever actually attempted to aid her, and there was several times for them to show any support. Between the FAA and the RAF taking turns at putting a hole into Tirpitz

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

The Luftwaffe based fighter squadrons around the fjord in Norway where Titpitz was based. There was no need for further Luftwaffe support, as Titpitz never sortied.

[@charlesjohnson6777]

Poor tirpitz hell of a ship, had mechanical problems and sunk by tall boys 😢

[@kristelvidhi5038]

History is always fun to learn.

[@richardstone5552]

Thanks

[@johndilday1846]

Good storyline. Keep it up.

[@James-zg2nl]

Please… PLEASE cover the story of CSM John Osborn VC. It has been a personal favourite of mine since I was in high school, and now as a father has become much more significant. Cheers

[@DaveSCameron]

It seems to me that the effort and constant failures of the Navy and then RAF to sink a single “pocket battleship “ with all the tools, resources and sheer amount and Operations was beyond embarrassing for the world’s premier navy and hardly far away in terms of a World War. Similar situation to the Bismarck that almost alone other than Eugene for company held nearly the entire Home Fleet at bay and this is without any mention of the German superiority regarding accuracy of fire. I’m certain that if I wasn’t brought up British and through our education system that there’s so many of these heroic failures that would be explained far clearer and I dare say more honestly than what we discover upon adulthood and having access to the full range of views from those involved.

[@kuukeli]

good video....thank you

[@christopherhill4438]

I've been wondering if anyone considered attacking warships in port using depth charges. Then they could damage the ships below the waterline and not have to penetrate the armour.

[@natheriver8910]

Very interesting 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@WalterWhiteFootballSharing]

The Tirpitz was a huge problem because they had to send too many powerful escorts not just anti Uboat destroyers to the many many convoys to Soviet Murmansk.. Escorts with enough firepower and speed to handle Tirpitz a brand new fast battleship. But there could be more then 2 convoys at a time in the north sea. Britain didn't have the ships to hold Mediterranean, hold Indian ocean coast from Japan and defend its own Atlantic food supply defend India convoys to and fro AND defend convoys from Tirpitz. And US Navy had its hands full in Pacific as well as all the escorts in Atlantic and all Pacific bases and campaigns and garrisons.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

But the British did hold the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, and the only threat to India was a brief raid in early, 1942. In fact, by fighting, and winning, campaigns in the Arctic, the Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, the Royal Navy made it possible for the United States Navy to concentrate almost entirely in the Pacific.

[@recoil53]

Inaccurate. Being a new fast battleship didn't make it more usefully potent. Having many convoys wasn't a problem in itself. By 1944 the Mediterranean was in Allied hands. Battleships, after the Solomon Islands were really only useful for bombardment and for providing AA screens for carriers. A couple of battleships on station would have been a deterrent to the Tirpitz, they didn't really have to shadow each individual convoy. But they could have been subject air attack. Neither did England really have a fleet defending the Indian Ocean, so that part is fiction. And ships used for anti-sub convoy duty were useless against a battleship. Well the escort carriers weren't, but they wouldn't be ideal. But it did act as a fleet in being, tying down resources as a potential, though little used threat. Really the Tirpitz was a bigger drain on the Germans than Allies, since they had more shortages of fuel, steel, and manpower. Always under repair, eating up flak guns, needing an overhaul in spite of little action, using up fuel for the one sortie she had.

[@EllieMaes-Grandad]

@@dovetonsturdee7033 Britain held both ends of the Med. For some time, through traffic was not possible, although Malta held on.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@EllieMaes-Grandad Why would the British even need to send convoys through the Mediterranean, except for the occasional supply convoy, when they had the longer but safer Cape route?

[@generalissim01]

This video was great! I'm excited to see how you share the next part with us! As for video topics, could you cover how the Allies occupied Iceland? I'm quite interested in the details of that initial occupation. Thanks!

[@HoH]

Thanks! I think I created a video on that 3 years ago. I might redo it..

[@maryholder3795]

​@@HoH please do. Maybe there's new information that's been released.

[@notthefbi7932]

Not first 😁 Another great naval video, loving these 👍

[@christopherhanton6611]

very good video the next video we know what happens to the Tirpitz. also, after this battle the HMS Furious would be put in reserved and scraped in 1947 because of her age. also, there new Modern British CVS were in service by then also the new light CVS of Colossus class were in service as well it joins the fleet in dec 1944. also, there was another small raid on Tirpitz in august of 44.

[@robbabcock_]

Wonderful video! I'm endlessly fascinated by the stories of all the big German battleships. One has to wonder how things might have been different if all the money and materials expended in a vain effort to match Great Britain in battleships had been used to build more U-Boats.

[@TerryHickey-xt4mf]

history is full of 'what ifs' thankfully Hitler was so possesses with trying to match the RN with battleships, common sense ( and historic victories using U boats) went out the window.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Newton's Third Law. If the Germans began accelerated U-Boat construction pre-war, so the British would have increased escort production to a much greater extent than they historically did. Moreover, U-Boats were only successful because of their access to French & Norwegian ports. Something that the Kriegsmarine could not possibly have anticipated.

[@jacobstewart1950]

The Brits ignored rescue the sailors intentionally

[@derek6579]

617 finished her off, but it was the raid by X craft the effectively bottled her up!

[@Ken-k7z]

The two successful X-craft dropped their two amatol side charges on the sea bed of Kaa Fjord under the Tirpitz. Nothing was attached to Tirpitz' hull.

[@Patrick_Cooper]

Bombs away. Anyone know what TV show that is from?

[@geoffburrill9850]

Great vid. Could you do one about the Italian attack on Hms York at Suda Bay? Thanks.

[@HoH]

I am working on it as we speak!

[@lexington476]

Did Terppitz have any air cover?

[@zintosion]

I really love the name of British warships

[@davidhughes8357]

Two 12000 lb ( Tallboy) bomb hits!

[@WildBill-kf2pc]

I would like to know what happened to the Battle Ship

[@chadrowe8452]

This shows the importance of norway because the German navy would have been much more effective if they didnt loose too many escorts in Norway

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

I wonder what Admiral Jellico (of Battle of Jutland fame) would have done in this situation. He was a great admiral and strategic thinker but of course he was busy being dead at the time.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Jellicoe faced a similar problem, that of the Fleet in Being. After Jutland the High Seas Fleet swung peacefully at anchor in the Jade for almost the whole of the remainder of the war. Until, of course, it mutinied in 1918.

[@johnmarcantolin5847]

Can you do the battle of manila bay?

[@Maple_Cadian]

Typo, you called the F6F Hellcat a wildcat in an info card.

[@lil_tequito]

Thought I was the only one that noticed that 💀

[@michaelwong9411]

It's so weird how historians try to make so much drama out of the fight to stop German battleships like the Bismarck and the Tirpitz. I mean sure, they weren't exactly nothing, but in the Pacific theatre where real naval battles took place, these ships would have been sunk almost immediately.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

You don't think that the Battle of the Atlantic was a 'real naval battle' then?

[@recoil53]

@@dovetonsturdee7033 It was a long campaign of many skirmishes.

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

@@recoil53 3,500 merchantmen and 175 allied warships sunk. 808 U-boats and 47 German sutface warships sunk. A skirmish?

[@mkaustralia7136]

I think that is a little glib. The allies did not sink too many Japanese warships in well defended harbours and none were battleships until the very end. Cruisers in Rabaul is the best for the Pacific and being Japanese, the armour was rather thin compared to Tirpitz’.

[@recoil53]

@@dovetonsturdee7033 I said a series of skirmishes. How did you reduce it to one?

[@geordiedog1749]

“Mostly repaired’. But not actually anywhere near operational.

[@steveclarke6257]

House of History, very sorry to criticises here, I can see you have put a a lot of effort into the visual but within the first part of the video there is a factual error. the X craft don't carry armour piercing explosives. They lay 8 tons of Amatol under the ships keel which by mechanical pressure means bends the armour plate such that it springs leaks (because water is incompressable). So the direct damage to the plating causes by the compression causes flooding in machinery spaces letting in 2k tons of water, and in addition the buckling of two propeller shafts, however that explosion also "lifts" the ship by an estimated 6ft out of the the water. which is why the turret roller bearings (because the turrets just sit on those bearings by sheer mass of the turrets themselves ) are shattered and all the optical and electronic equipment is smashed. Source effectively cripples the ship for there remainder of here service as the damage to plating and the buckling of the keel reduces the speed to about 28kts, in addition they could never fix one of the turrets so it could freely rotate so she is down to only 6 of here 8 15" guns

[@HoH]

Thanks for your comment. I go into further detail about Operation Source here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j4nEeIOmmJuAbqc

[@steveclarke6257]

@@HoH the book you need to see is ISBN 978-1-84102-310-6 by Plymouth University Press, called "Hunting Tirpitz" it is a collation of reports from the National archives and damage assesments by Kriegsmarine naval engineers done at the time

[@jacobchapman2699]

Why didnt they opt to use torpedos in this air attack?

[@dovetonsturdee7033]

Anti-torpedo nets, and heavy AA guns, as well as the fact that Tirpitz was at the end of a fjord, among other things.

[@alepaz1099]

👍👍

[@ByronGiant]

What's this about doodoo?

[@benjaminthomas6663]

Just say no to clickbait arrows.

[@CRAIGKMSBISMARCKTIRPITZ533]

My Great GrandFather's Served On KMS'S GNEISENAU,SCHARNHORST,BISMARCK & TIRPITZ 😃. They Told Me When I Was Little EveryThing About The Wars 😃

[@mrsillywalk]

NO. They did not place any charges on the ship's hull. Right at the start, this is wrong. The explosives were side charges on the X boats that were released as timed ground mines under the ship. The mines were too big for manipulation by divers. This augers negatively for the rest of the narrative.

[@mtathos_]

This sounds like AI.. otherwise immaculate voice over, but I really doubt it

[@MarcusAgrippa390]

It's not A.I. It's the channel creator, same voice since the beginning.

[@markdrummond7]

AI gibberish.