November 12

What happened on November 12 in aviation and space history.

• November 12, 1944

  Sinking of the battleship Tirpitz

  Milestone — On 12 November 1944, Lancasters of Nos. 617 and 9 Squadrons RAF sank the German battleship Tirpitz off Håkøya island near Tromsø, Norway, with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs in Operation Catechism, removing Germany's greatest surface threat to the Arctic convoys.