WI-Tirpitz sunk during Operation Zitronella

On September 8, 1943 the German battleship Tirpitz fired her guns in anger for the first and last time when she bombarded Spitsbergen as part of Operation Zitronella.

Faced with the opportunity to get rid of Tirpitz, the British did...nothing.:confused:

But what if the RN or RAF was able to catch and sink Tirpitz during the operation? How would the rest of the war be affected?
 
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With Tirpitz no longer a fleet in being for the RN, you probably see a shift of more naval assets to the Pacific. There may be butterflies with more British ships in the ocean, but it was increasingly America's game by this point in the war.
 

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With Tirpitz no longer a fleet in being for the RN, you probably see a shift of more naval assets to the Pacific. There may be butterflies with more British ships in the ocean, but it was increasingly America's game by this point in the war.

With the increase in the carrier strength of the British Eastern Fleet due to not having to keep 2-3 carriers in home waters screening Tirpitz, maybe USS Saratoga doesn't join them for the two raids against oil facilities on Sumatra and Java in the spring of 1944.
 
Scharnhorst is still there. I'm not sure there was much opportunity to do anything anyway, it seems the raid only lasted a few hours.
 
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