Wing Commander J B "Willy" Tait, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron RAF, gives his account of the successful raid carried out on the German battleship TIRPITZ in Tromso Fjord, Norway, (Operation CATECHISM) on 12 November 1944, during a press conferenc

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Wing Commander J B "Willy" Tait, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron RAF, gives his account of the successful raid carried out on the German battleship TIRPITZ in Tromso Fjord, Norway, (Operation CATECHISM) on 12 November 1944, during a press conference at the Ministry of Information, London. Sat next to Tait, in civilian clothes, is Air Commodore H A Jones, Director of Public Relations at the Air Ministry. Sitting on Jones' left is Squadron Leader A G Williams, who led No. 9 Squadron RAF on the raid.

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