Jim Laurier
Author
Series
Air campaign volume 7
Publisher
Osprey Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz saild into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied priority. But sinking a modern and formidably armed battleship was no easy task, especially when she lay secure in a remote, mountainous fjord, protected by anti-torpedo nets, radar, flak guns and smoke generators. This book charts the full, complex story of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In the early hours of December 7, 1941, the Japanese First Air Fleet launched a massive air-strike against the American Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Supported by a group of midget submarines, the attack gutted the American battleship fleet but, owing to a lack of intelligence, the American aircraft carriers they hoped to destroy were not present. In this new study of the raid, Mark Stille reexamines the political context of the attack...