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2. Channel Dash - Wikipedia

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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.

3. February 1942 - Wikipedia

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   The following events occurred in February 1942: February 1, 1942 ... The Germans launched the Channel Dash, ... Free French submarine Surcouf possibly sank north ...

4. Operation Donnerkeil - Wikipedia

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   During the first phase of the operation the Germans achieved surprise. The German ships reached Germany on 13 February 1942, two days after the start of Cerberus and Donnerkeil. During the Channel Dash the Luftwaffe defeated British air attacks on the German ships, allowing them to reach German waters.

5. German battleship Scharnhorst - Wikipedia

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   The so-called "Channel Dash", codenamed Operation Cerberus, would avoid the increasingly effective Allied radar and patrol aircraft in the Atlantic. Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax, Scharnhorst ' s first commander, was given command of the operation. In early February, minesweepers swept a route through the English Channel undetected by the British. [72]

6. Dover Strait coastal guns - Wikipedia

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   On 11 February 1942, the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and more than twenty smaller escort vessels sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home port of Wilhelmshaven by an audacious dash through the English Channel, codenamed Unternehmen Zerberus (Operation Cerberus).

7. Eugene Esmonde - Wikipedia

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   Esmonde earned his Victoria Cross when he led his squadron against elements of the German fleet which were making the "Channel Dash" (Operation Cerberus) from Brest in an attempt to return to their home bases at Wilhelmshaven and Kiel through the English Channel. On 12 February 1942 off the coast of England, 32-year-old Lieutenant Commander ...

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   Hallmark Media Hallmark Media kicked off 2025 with four all-new Hallmark Channel movies — taking viewers all around the world from the comfort of their couch. The network announced in December ...

9. German cruiser Prinz Eugen - Wikipedia

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   After putting into occupied France and undergoing repairs, the ship participated in Operation Cerberus, a daring daylight dash through the English Channel back to Germany. In February 1942, Prinz Eugen was deployed to Norway, although her time stationed there was curtailed when she was torpedoed by the British submarine Trident days after ...