About: Operation Tungsten   Sponge Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbkwik:resource/krD_GSPHhNL2IejCI7diCQ==, within Data Space : 134.155.108.49:8890 associated with source dataset(s)

The British decision to strike Kaafjord was motivated by fears that the battleship would attack strategically important convoys carrying supplies to the Soviet Union when she re-entered service. Removing the threat posed by Tirpitz would also allow the Allies to redeploy the capital ships which were being held in the North Sea to counter her. After four months of training and preparations, the British Home Fleet sailed on 30 March 1944 and aircraft launched from five aircraft carriers struck Kaafjord on 3 April. The raid achieved surprise, and the British aircraft met little opposition. Fifteen bombs hit the battleship, and strafing by fighter aircraft inflicted heavy casualties on her gun crews. Four British aircraft and nine airmen were lost during the operation.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Operation Tungsten
rdfs:comment
  • The British decision to strike Kaafjord was motivated by fears that the battleship would attack strategically important convoys carrying supplies to the Soviet Union when she re-entered service. Removing the threat posed by Tirpitz would also allow the Allies to redeploy the capital ships which were being held in the North Sea to counter her. After four months of training and preparations, the British Home Fleet sailed on 30 March 1944 and aircraft launched from five aircraft carriers struck Kaafjord on 3 April. The raid achieved surprise, and the British aircraft met little opposition. Fifteen bombs hit the battleship, and strafing by fighter aircraft inflicted heavy casualties on her gun crews. Four British aircraft and nine airmen were lost during the operation.
sameAs
Strength
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 40(xsd:integer)
  • 80(xsd:integer)
  • Anti-aircraft batteries and ships
dcterms:subject
dbkwik:military/pr...iPageUsesTemplate
Partof
Date
  • 1944-04-03(xsd:date)
Label
  • Kaafjord
Commander
  • Henry Moore
  • Hans Meyer
float
  • left
Caption
  • The location of Kaafjord in northern Norway
  • A Fleet Air Arm crewman chalks a message on the 1,600-pound bomb carried by a Fairey Barracuda of HMS Furious
long
  • 23(xsd:double)
Casualties
  • 1(xsd:integer)
  • 9(xsd:integer)
  • 123(xsd:integer)
Result
  • Inconclusive
Place
  • Kaafjord, Norway
Conflict
  • Operation Tungsten
lat
  • 69(xsd:double)
abstract
  • The British decision to strike Kaafjord was motivated by fears that the battleship would attack strategically important convoys carrying supplies to the Soviet Union when she re-entered service. Removing the threat posed by Tirpitz would also allow the Allies to redeploy the capital ships which were being held in the North Sea to counter her. After four months of training and preparations, the British Home Fleet sailed on 30 March 1944 and aircraft launched from five aircraft carriers struck Kaafjord on 3 April. The raid achieved surprise, and the British aircraft met little opposition. Fifteen bombs hit the battleship, and strafing by fighter aircraft inflicted heavy casualties on her gun crews. Four British aircraft and nine airmen were lost during the operation. The damage inflicted during the attack was not sufficient to sink or disable Tirpitz, but 122 members of her crew were killed and 316 wounded. The German Navy decided to repair the battleship, and works were completed by mid-July. The British conducted further carrier raids against Tirpitz between April and August 1944 in the hope of prolonging the period she was out of service, but none were successful. Tirpitz was eventually disabled and then sunk by Royal Air Force heavy bombers in late 1944.
Alternative Linked Data Views: ODE     Raw Data in: CXML | CSV | RDF ( N-Triples N3/Turtle JSON XML ) | OData ( Atom JSON ) | Microdata ( JSON HTML) | JSON-LD    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3217, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Standard Edition
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2012 OpenLink Software