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Corsair & Hellcat V. Tirpitz

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The Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm was tasked with keeping the German battleship Tirpitz tied up in its fjord in northern Norway during 1944 as the Russian convoys scrambled past on their way to Murmansk. Between April and August, a series of aircraft carrier strikes - Tungsten, Mascot and Goodwood - helped deal just enough damage to keep the last Nazi battleship out of action before Barnes Wallis' Tallboy bombs were ready to deal the final blow. While the attacks represented the first major operational deployment of the Fairey Barracuda torpedo-dive bomber, it was also among the first actions involving the F4U Corsair and F6F Hellcat in Fleet Air Arm service.
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