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The Channel Dash (German: Unternehmen Zerberus, Operation Cerberus) was a German naval operation during the Second World War. [ a ] A Kriegsmarine (German Navy) squadron comprising two Scharnhorst -class battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau , the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and their escorts was evacuated from Brest in Brittany to German ports.
Unternehmen Donnerkeil (Operation Thunderbolt) [4] [5] was the codename for a German military operation of the Second World War. Donnerkeil was an air superiority operation in support of Operation Cerberus, also known as the Channel Dash by the Kriegsmarine (German Navy).
The Battle of Badung Strait was a naval battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the night of 19/20 February 1942 in Badung Strait (not to be confused with the West Java city of Bandung) between the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command (ABDA) and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
In early 1942, the two ships made a daylight dash up the English Channel from occupied France to Germany. In late 1942, Gneisenau was heavily damaged in an Allied air raid against Kiel . In early 1943, Scharnhorst joined the Bismarck -class Tirpitz in Norway to interdict Allied convoys to the Soviet Union.
Six of the squadron's aircraft flew off from RAF Manston to attack Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen in the English Channel, as they carried out Operation Cerberus. The attacking aircraft failed to score any hits, and all six were lost. [8] The Commanding Officer—Eugene Esmonde—was posthumously awarded the Victoria ...
Commanders at War is a television show on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel). It highlights specific battles or skirmishes from World War II, where one commander is pitted against another. Using computer-generated imagery, many scenes are illustrated using cardboard-cutout-like figures to represent soldiers and equipment.
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The Second Battle of the Java Sea was the last naval action of the Netherlands East Indies campaign, of 1941–42. It occurred on 1 March 1942, two days after the first Battle of the Java Sea . It saw the end of the last Allied warships operating in the waters around Java , allowing Japanese forces to complete their conquest of the Dutch East ...