Though failing to penetrate Tirpitz’s thick armor belts, they killed over 120 crew and injured around 300 including Captain Hans Meyer, knocked out two 150-millimeter gun turrets, both ...

Though failing to penetrate Tirpitz’s thick armor belts, they killed over 120 crew and injured around 300 including Captain Hans Meyer, knocked out two 150-millimeter gun turrets, both ...

When Cameron and his crew were captured, Tirpitz's captain, Hans Meyer, ordered the ship to raise steam. X-7 was then seen trying to escape on the battleship's port side.

After the Tirpitz was commissioned into the war in 1941, Kriegsmarine Grand Admiral Erich Raeder decided that it be sent to Norway, which had been successfully occupied by the Nazis the previous year.