Operation Title was an unsuccessful 1942 Allied attack on the German
battleship Tirpitz during World War II. The Allies considered Tirpitz
to be a major threat to their shipping and after several Royal Air Force
heavy bomber raids failed to inflict any damage it was decided to use
Royal Navy midget submarines instead. Operation Title involved a pair of
two-man British Chariots which were transported to Norway on board a
small boat named Arthur. Both Chariots were lost when bad weather caused
them to detach from Arthur on 31 October. It was not possible for the
Allied boat to reach the sea due to German security measures, and Arthur
was scuttled. The Allied personnel attempted to escape overland and all
but one reached neutral Sweden on 5 November. The other – a British
serviceman – was taken prisoner by German forces and murdered on 19
January 1943. Tirpitz was eventually sunk by another bomber raid on 12
November 1944.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Title>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train
travelling from London to Folkestone, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Gold_Robbery>
1864:
American Civil War: A small Confederate force, which included
cadets from the Virginia Military Institute, forced the Union Army out
of the Shenandoah Valley.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_New_Market>
1904:
Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and
Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yashima>
1916:
Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was
lynched in Waco, Texas.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Jesse_Washington>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
child's play:
(idiomatic) Something particularly easy or simple.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/child%27s_play>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Thou silver deity of secret night, Direct my footsteps
through the woodland shade;Thou conscious witness of unknown
delight, The Lover’s guardian, and the Muse’s aid!
--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lady_Mary_Wortley_Montagu>
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