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The Third Battle of the Azores was a fiercely fought naval action June 27-30, 1950, between the US Navy and the Kriegsmarine.
Convoy H-135, was transporting a US Navy Construction battalion, equipment and materials to expand and add a second runway at Lejas Field, the US Army Air Force base on Terceira Island, in the Azores, in order to enable the base to operate B-29s and act as an emergency airfield for damaged returning B-36 Peacemakers. The convoy consisted of 7 fast transports and a tanker. The escort was comprised of the Gearing Class destroyers Gyatt, Hamner, Fiske, and Dyess, The Allan M Sumner class destroyers Ingraham and Waldron, and the Cleveland class cruiser Little Rock.
A Luftwaffe Heinkel 177 maritime patrol aircraft operating from Tenerife spotted the convoy at dawn June 27, and over the next 24 hours the convoy was attacked by 11 U-boats in three waves, including 2 of the Type XXIII Electroboots that had been responsible for the brief “third happy time” in 1946. Five of the U-boats were sunk by US B-24 and Martin Mariner aircraft, 2 were sunk by the escorts, and 2 were sunk by the US Navy hunter-killer group built around the escort carriers Sangamon and Santee, that were 200 nautical miles south of the convoy. U-1241 managed to hit Little Rock and the freighter Bluefield Victory with a torpedo each, before the submarine was driven deep and damaged. Little Rock, shipping 2000 tons of water and only able to make 12 knots, turned back, escorted by Gyatt, and Fiske. Bluefield Victory was slowed to 8 knots and dropped behind the convoy, escorted by Waldron.
The Kriegsmarine now put into motion a daring gambit. The Panzerschiffes Lützow and Scheer, with the destroyers Z 51, Guépard and Valmy, leaving their base in Oran, approached from the south east, while Tirpitz, Prinz Eugen and the destroyers Z53, Z58, Z61, and Antonio Pigafetta, 2 days out from Brest, approached the convoy from the north, hoping the catch the Americans in a pincer movement.
The US Navy Cryptologic Intelligence department had cracked the 7-wheel Enigma machine in May, and were aware of the Kriegsmarine movements. The convoy’s distant cover force, with the Essex class carrier Valley Forge, the battleship Illinois, cruisers Alaska, Puerto Rico, Biloxi, Topeka, and 9 destroyers approached from the east. Task Force 19 had been detached from covering the amphibious landing at Dakar, Operation Stopwatch, and approached from the south, creating a pincer around the German pincer. Task Force 19 under Admiral Arleigh Burke consisted of the Essex class carriers Hancock, Boxer, Lexington, and Leyte, the battleships Kentucky, New Jersey, and Wisconsin, the cruisers Baltimore, Saint Paul, Bremerton, Denver, Santa Fe, Birmingham, and Pasedena, and 19 destroyers.
Admiral Hans-Erich Voss on Lützow had intended to attack the convoy at night, but a change in the convoy’s course meant his Arado floatplane came in radar contact at dawn of the 29th. He knew that with their newest radar, the Americans experienced little difference between their daylight and night gunnery, and so he charged in, informed by his U-boat reconnaissance that the convoy now had only 3 destroyers as escort.
The first strike package from Valley Forge also arrived at dawn, bringing 23 TBF Avenger torpedo bombers and 32 SB2C Helldiver dive bombers, escorted by 18 F2G Super Corsair Fighters. Lützow was hit twice by 1000lb bombs, flooding one of her boiler rooms and putting her after turret out of action. Scheer was hit by a bomb and 2 torpedoes, bringing her to a standstill. Guépard was also hit by a torpedo and broke in half. The German destroyers suffered heavy losses to their anti-aircraft gunners from strafing by American fighters. 8 US Navy aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft fire.
Sheer had her survivors rescued by the two remaining destroyers, and was scuttled by torpedoes from Z 51, and Voss turned back east, hoping to make for the shelter of coastal air cover. Admiral Reinicke, on Tirpitz, smelled a trap and turned back north, knowing it would earn him a sacking and a tirade from the senescent Fuhrer, but preferred to save his ships and crews. Tirpitz’s air search radar warned him at noon that an American air strike was on its way. A Ju488 maritime patrol plane flew overhead, but Reinicke was a whole day out of range of land-based fighter cover.
Valley Forge’s afternoon strike hit Tirpitz with 3 torpedoes and one bomb, but the battleship managed to continue at 27 knots, with the rest of her escorts undamaged. The strike from TF 19 arrived at 1600 hours, with 110 torpedo bombers, 140 dive bombers, and 120 fighters. Prinz Eugen was left sinking, Tirpitz was struck by 2 more torpedoes and 6 bombs, reducing her to a speed of 9 knots. The destroyers Z53 was sunk by two bombs. Z61 had her stern blown off by a torpedo but was still afloat, and was taken in tow by Antonio Pigafetta, leaving Z58 as the only maneuvering destroyer. 6 US Navy planes fell to anti-aircraft fire.
The next day heavy cloud and rain hampered aircraft operations. US radar equipped Avenger carrier planes and maritime patrol planes from the Azores searched for the Kriegsmarine survivors, and German long-range maritime strike aircraft attempted to find the Americans. At 2100 hours on the 29th, USS Alaska and Puerto Rico located Lützow, and engaged in a long range radar directed gun-battle that left Lützow a burning wreck. Lützow managed to hit Alaska on her stern, setting her float planes on fire, and once below the water line, causing serious flooding.
The dawn of June 30th came, again cloudy and wet. Tirpitz had managed to limp within range of shore-based strike aircraft, but visibility was patchy. The Luftwaffe Ju-288s appeared through the day, and some drove home attacks on the approaching trio of Burke’s battleships, but fell to the Super Corsairs and F9F Panthers of the CAP. New Jersey was the first to get within range of Tirpitz, and when her 16” super-heavy shells began falling around the German Battleship, Reinicke ordered the destroyers Z 58 and Antonio Pigafetta to flee, sent a final radio message and turned to fight. Tirpitz hit Wisconsin three times before her gunnery fell off with turrets under local control. The German battleship managed to absorb an incredible amount of damage from her three Iowa class foes, being hit over a hundred times before her last gun was silenced.
The destroyer USS Harlan Dickenson applied the coup de grace, hitting Tirpitz with 10 torpedoes at close range.
Convoy H-135 arrived at the Azores one day later.