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The crew of a StuG III assault gun from the Sturmgeschütz-Brigade 394 (Assault Gun Brigade 394) having lunch in the French commune of Lonlay L'Abbaye on rue Saint-Michel; North-western France, June, 1944.
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KMS Tirpitz was completed by February 1941, with great hopes of making a binome with her sister-ship Bismarck. But during this period, the RAF raided the shipyard. They missed Tirpitz but badly damaged everything around and considerably slowed down the completion work. Commissioned on 25 February for sea trials in the Baltic she was stationed in Kiel and returned training in the Baltic in March to May. Its first mission was to patrol the Aaland Islands until 26 September 1941.
When there was no proof the Soviet Navy would make any breakthrough and the rapid advances of the German Army, it was understood the Luftwafe would deal with Leningrad, which was besieged. She tested her primary and secondary guns on a moving targer, the old converted battleship Hessen as a radio-controlled target ship. In May previously, Bismarck had been sunk, so there were less hopes of mounting an atlantic surface raiding mission again. Instead, Norwway looked les exposed and risky, while more effective now the allies started to supply the Soviet Army through the "northern road"; The battleship would from then on spend most of her career and end there as the "solitary queen of the north" as nicknamed by the Norwegians.
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When there was no proof the Soviet Navy would make any breakthrough and the rapid advances of the German Army, it was understood the Luftwafe would deal with Leningrad, which was besieged. She tested her primary and secondary guns on a moving targer, the old converted battleship Hessen as a radio-controlled target ship. In May previously, Bismarck had been sunk, so there were less hopes of mounting an atlantic surface raiding mission again. Instead, Norwway looked les exposed and risky, while more effective now the allies started to supply the Soviet Army through the "northern road"; The battleship would from then on spend most of her career and end there as the "solitary queen of the north" as nicknamed by the Norwegians.
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