Remarkable low-level oblique picture of the German battleship Tirpitz, moored in Åfjord, Norway, taken by Flight Lieutenant A.P.F. Fane, a former racing car driver, from an altitude of 100 feet.
taken from fb/R.Kennedy/WWII military info & photos

birdseye view of the Tirpitz

The U-30 in the port of Lorient, Brittany, north-western France, after the sixth combat patrol.
 German submarine U-30 was a Type VIIA U-boat of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that served during World War II. She mistakenly sank the British passenger liner SS Athenia, the first ship sunk in World War II, on 3 September 1939. She was retired from front-line service in September 1940, after undertaking eight war patrols, having sunk 17 vessels and damaging two others.  


German sub U-30

The commander of the German U-532 submarine (type IX C / 40) frigate-captain Otto-Heinrich Junker (1905-2000), second from the left, salutes the British Commander-in-Chief, Western Approches Command Navy Admiral Max Horton (1883-1951), descending the ramp to the submarine at Gladstone Dock in Liverpool, England.
   On its last trip, the U-532 submarine left Jakarta, Indonesia, in January 1945, delivering to Europe, among other things, tungsten, tin, rubber and caffeine. Being close to its destination, the commander of the submarine found out about the capitulation of Germany and decided to surrender and enter into British captivity; 05/18/1945.

