World War 2 Photos: Soviet submarine K 21 of the Red Army Navy in the Kola Bay during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union (1941 – 1945). The Eastern Front,
Shortly before, on July 5, 1942, the Soviet submarine K 21 attacked the strongest ship of the German fleet (Kriegsmarine of the Third Reich (The Nazi Germany)) the battleship Tirpitz. K-21 launched four torpedoes; The submariners did not see the result of the attack, but heard two violent explosions and the commander of the Russian K-21 submarine Nikolai Lunin reported on the torpedoing of the battleship. However, German documents do not confirm that the Tirpitz was damaged that day.
Photo place: Kola Bay, USSR
Date of the photo: July-August 1942
Photo by: Evgeni Khaldei