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Tirpitz Memorial outside Tromsø

Writer: InkaInka
Nov 12, 20191 min read

aerial photo of bombing

75 years ago today, 12.11.1944, the German battleship Tirpitz was sunk outside Tromsø in Northern Norway. 916 of its crew went down with her. R.I.P.

​Here is a few photos I took last autumn from the Tirpitz memorial on Håkøya where it sunk.


the tirpitz memorial

memorial monument of tirpitz

plaque on tirpitz memorial

metal sign
"The steel plate is from Tirpitz"

thickness of steel plate

view over fjord

aerial photo of bombing

description of the bombing raid on tirpitz

sign that points to the tirpitz monument

 

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