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Lt B.C. Place, DSc, RN and Lt D. Cameron, RNR.

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Lieutenants Place and Cameron were the Commanding Officers of two of His Majesty’s Midget Submarines X7 and X6 which on the 22nd September 1943 carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz, moored in the protected anchorage of Kaa fjord, North Norway

Attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz

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Lieutenants Place and Cameron were the Commanding Officers of two of His Majesty’s Midget Submarines X 7 and X 6 which on 22nd September 1943 carried out a most daring and successful attack on the German Battleship Tirpitz, moored in the protected anchorage of Kaafiard, North Norway.

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