Arthur William La Touche Bisset
Arthur William La Touche Bisset was a Royal Navy officer, active in both World Wars and becoming a noted commander of aircraft carriers and carrier formations in home waters, the Mediterranean and (briefly) the Indian Ocean during the second conflict.
La Touche Bisset (left) with Thomas Halsey, Flag Captain of HMS King George V, July 1943.
La Touche Bisset (left) with Guy Russell, Captain of HMS Duke of York, Rosyth, 7 November 1943
Operation Tungsten was a Second World War Royal Navy air raid that targeted the German battleship Tirpitz. The operation sought to damage or destroy Tirpitz at her base in Kaafjord in the far north of Norway before she could become fully operational again following a period of repairs.
A Fleet Air Arm crewman chalks a message on the 1,600-pound bomb carried by a Fairey Barracuda of HMS Furious
A British aerial reconnaissance photograph of Tirpitz moored at Kaafjord. The artificial smoke generators on the shores of the fjord have not yet obscured her.
Loch Eriboll in Scotland was used to simulate Kaafjord during training exercises
Grumman Hellcats on the escort carrier HMS Emperor, with other ships of the British force in the background
