Operation Mascot
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Operation Mascot was an unsuccessful British carrier air raid conducted against the German battleship Tirpitz at her anchorage in Kaafjord, Norway, on 17 July 1944. The attack was one of a series of s
Corsair fighters and Barracuda bombers ranged on the flight deck of HMS Formidable during operations off Norway in July 1944
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.
An 830 Naval Air Squadron Barracuda taking off from the temporary ski jump on Furious at the start of Operation Mascot
U-361 under attack on 17 July
Operation Obviate
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Operation Obviate was an unsuccessful British air raid of World War II which targeted the German battleship Tirpitz. It was conducted by Royal Air Force heavy bombers on 29 October 1944, and sought to
Tirpitz at her mooring off the island of Håkøya in November 1944
Six Tallboy bombs prior to being loaded on No. 9 Squadron aircraft in October or November 1944
Part of the wreckage of the No. 617 Squadron Lancaster which made a crash landing in Sweden, photographed in 2015