Operation Source

When

22 Sep 1943

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

69.99° N, 23.32° E

Description

1943 WWII RN midget submarine attacks on heavy German warships in Norway

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

Second World War Royal Navy midget submarine attacks on heavy German warships in Norway

Operation Source was a series of attacks to neutralise the heavy German warships – Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Lützow – based in northern Norway, using X-class midget submarines.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Operation Source: British midget submarines attack the German battleship Tirpitz, at anchor in the Kåfjord, crippling her for six months”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “opération Source”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page