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Today's featured article A British Chariot manned torpedo 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 Chariot manned torpedoes 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. (Full article...) Recently featured: Mars Doom (2016 video game) Thank You (Meghan Trainor album) On this day... May 15: Feast day of Saint Carthage (Catholicism); Nakba Day in Palestinian communities Statue of Valentinian II 392 – Roman emperor Valentinian II (pictured) was found hanged in his residence in Vienne, in present-day France. 1855 – Thieves stole 224 pounds (102 kg) of gold from a train travelling from London to Folkestone, England. 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. 1904 – Russo-Japanese War: The Japanese battleships Hatsuse and Yashima sank after striking several mines off Port Arthur, China. 1916 – Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas. Hilary of Galeata (d. 558) Emily Dickinson (d. 1886) K. M. Cariappa (d. 1993) More anniversaries: May 14 May 15 May 16

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