KRIEGSMARINE U-BOATS 1939-45 - Volume 2 (New Vanguard)

KRIEGSMARINE U-BOATS 1939-45 - Volume 2 (New Vanguard)

No room for mistakes

No room for mistakes

Paul Watkins

Of all the acts of gallantry in World War II few were as audacious as the attack by midget submarines on the pride of the German fleet, the battleship Tirpitz, lying in her heavily fortified lair deep in a Norwegian fjord. Lieutenant Godfrey Place was in command of submarine X7 in September 1943 and travelled over 1000 miles, negotiating minefields and anti-submarine nets to place four tons of high explosive accurately under the hull of the Tirpitz. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1944, at the age of 22.
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