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Old 10th Aug 2015, 12:03
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Courtney Mil
 
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All the wonderful squadron rivalry and great banter aside, I've never been convinced that the sinking of the Tirpitz could ever be attributed to either squadron. Or, indeed, totally to that final raid. It seems more likely to my simple mind that that the cumulative damage to her since the RAF took over the mission from the RN (around September 44?) all had a significant part to play - I could even go so far as to say that the 12 November raid may not have succeeded at all without the previous ones.

It is entirely possible that even some of the Tallboys that missed the ship played an important role in the final success, by undermining the artificial sandbar that was propping her up. I guess the claims tend to focus on the the two bombs that hit her and exploded, but would she had capsized had the other bombs had not played their part?
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