Tirpitz: the Halifax Raids. The Bomber Command Attacks on the Battleship Tirpitz in 1942

Smith, Nigel

ISBN 10: 1871187273 / ISBN 13: 9781871187274

Published by Air Research Publications, Walton-on-Thames, 1994

About this Item

331pp, photos, maps, dwgs, pages sl browned at edges. Signed on bookplate by six members of the aircraft crew, the Norwegian agent, and the author. Scarce.

Seller Inventory # 011168

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tirpitz: the Halifax Raids. The Bomber Command Attacks on the Battleship Tirpitz in 1942
• Publisher: Air Research Publications, Walton-on-Thames
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1871187273
• ISBN 13: 9781871187274
• Binding: Card Covers
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • War & Military
  • Aviation
  • Maritime

About this title

Synopsis

Many attempts were made to sink the Battleship Tirpitz at anchor but among the first were the daring raids made by Halifax bomber 'S-Sugar'. Shot down and submerged in a Norwegian fjord, the Halifax was recovered to become one of the RAF Museum's most famous exhibits.