Operation Mascot

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Operation Mascot was a World War II British Royal Navy air raid launched in 1944 in an unsuccessful attempt to sink the German battleship Tirpitz in Norway.

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Operation Mascot canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II operation
military operation
aimedAt anchored Tirpitz in Norwegian fjord
belligerent Nazi Germany
United Kingdom
belligerentRole Allied offensive operation
conductedBy British Home Fleet
conflict World War II
country United Kingdom
countryTargeted Norway under German occupation
date 17 July 1944
followedBy Operation Goodwood
location Kåfjord
Norway
militaryBranch Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm
linked to: Fleet Air Arm
natureOfOperation carrier air strike
notableTargetShip Tirpitz
objective to neutralize Tirpitz as a threat to Arctic convoys
to sink Tirpitz
operator Fleet Air Arm
Royal Navy
opponent Kriegsmarine
opposedBy German anti-aircraft defences
smoke screens protecting Tirpitz
partOf Allied efforts against Tirpitz
precededBy earlier Royal Navy attacks on Tirpitz
reasonForFailure ineffective bombing through smoke and defences
result failure
statusOfTirpitzAfterOperation undamaged
strategicContext protection of Arctic convoys to the Soviet Union
target German battleship Tirpitz
linked to: Tirpitz
theatre Arctic naval operations of World War II
used aircraft carriers
bombs
carrier-borne aircraft
torpedoes
year 1944

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Tirpitz subjectOfOperation Operation Mascot
Operation Tungsten followedBy Operation Mascot
HMS Saumarez participatedIn Operation Mascot