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Norwegian investigative journalist Alf Jacobsen relates one of the most incredible tales of the Second World War, in which Royal Navy X-craft midget submarines attacked the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway. A daring plan was hatched by the Admiralty to sink Tirpitz using midget submarines to plant high explosive mines beneath the ship's keel. On 22 September 1943, six X-craft midget submarines set out from Scotland to sink the battleship at anchor in Norway. Three never reached the fjord and X5, commanded by Lt Henty-Creer, was presumed sunk by the Germans, so only X6 and X7 made the attack. Both Lt Donald Cameron in X6 and Lt Godfrey Place in X7 placed their charges successfully, but were forced to surrender. Both were awarded the Victoria Cross. Although Tirpitz was not sunk she was put out of action until April 1944. Lt Henty-Creer, the commander of X5, and his crew were never seen again. Neither he nor any of his crew received any posthumous gallantry awards. Did X5 actually penetrate the anti-submarine defences around Tirpitz and lay its explosive charges beneath the battleship? If it did, then Henty-Creer and his crew deserve to be honoured for their bravery.
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Sylvia Donovan
reviewed X-Craft versus Tirpitz: The Mystery of the Missing X5 on April 09, 2018
X-Craft versus Tirpitz
A lot of interesting information about the evolution of naval fire control during the big gun era including practical results from WWI and WWII Would have liked to have seen more information about the design of the guns as well rather than the short chapter at the end. This book could have been a lot better. Writing is more like a stream of consciousness. Good writing and proper editing would make this a better book. Illustrations are incomplete and hard to follow in many cases. Critical features of warship fire control system in photos should have been identified with leaders and captions rather than a long fine print caption. Similarly the description for fire control analog computers is difficult to follow. A flow chart showing how information came into these mechanical analog computers, was processed and then output would greatly clarify the text as well as the illustrations. Worth reading if you are interested in electro mechanical analog computer and or naval history. Rather expensive for what it is though
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