Operation Source
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Operation Source was a series of attacks to neutralise the heavy German warships – Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Lützow – based in northern Norway, using X-class midget submarines.
Tirpitz c. 1941
Lt. Henty-Creer and the crew of X5
The grave of Lieutenant Lionel Barnett Whittam at the Commonwealth War Graves section of Tromsø's main cemetery
Midget submarine
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A midget submarine is any submarine under 150 tons, typically operated by a crew of one or two but sometimes up to nine, with little or no on-board living accommodation. They normally work with mother
Operation Source
…Source was a series of attacks to neutralise the heavy German warships – Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Lützow – based in northern Norway, using X-class midget submarines. The attacks took place in September 1943 at Kåfjord and succeeded in keeping Tirpitz out of action for at least six months…
Some 80 Japanese Type D "Kōryū" Midget Submarines in a dry dock at Kure, 19 October 1945
Crew of a British X-class midget submarine, part of the British Pacific Submarine Fleet
German midget submarine Seehund, with a torpedo
An Italian CB-class submarine in the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum in Zagreb, Croatia