NORWEGIAN SAW END OF TIRPITZ
German Sailors Trapped In Hull : (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 27. A Norwegian who watched the R.A.F.’s death-blow attack against the Tirpitz from a nearby height and then entered Sweden has given the first eyewitness account from the receiving end, says the Stockholm correspondent of The Times. He watched the Tirpitz turn turtle. The torpedo nets surrounding the battleship prevented escort craft approaching immediately, but when the nets were cut a swarm of small craft moved in and rescued a number of survivors, many with terrible burns. The Germans spent the next 48 hours tackling the armour plating with oxygen blowpipes in an effort to extricate those trapped inside the hull. They succeeded in getting some out, but most were dead.
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Southland Times, Issue 25533, 29 November 1944, Page 5
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