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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.
Cerberus and its supporting operation, Donnerkeil, began on 11 February 1942. 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.
In 1942, along with five other ships from the 13th flotilla, the John Mahn took part in Operation Cerberus, a convoy mission of more than 200 ships to escort the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brittany through the English Channel to German ports. [2] Route of Operation Cerberus
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 ...
Operation Donnerkeil 1942 - German air superiority for Operation Cerberus; Operation Donnerschlag 1942 - German planned break-out movement from Stalingrad, USSR; Operation Doppelschlag 1942 - German anti-shipping operation off Novaya Zemlya by Admiral Scheer and Admiral Hipper
Fw 190 A-3, III./JG 2, Hans "Assi" Hahn, France 1942 Fw 190 A-4 of I./JG 2 flown by Olt. Horst Hannig, France, spring 1943. The first significant operation in which Fw 190s played an important role was Operation Cerberus, the "Channel dash" break-out through the English Channel and Dover Strait by the Kriegsmarine ' s small battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz ...
In early 1942, the crews of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen made preparations for Operation Cerberus, a daylight dash up the English Channel. The ships were to be redeployed to Norway, to assist in the disruption of convoys to the Soviet Union, as well as the defense of occupied Norway.
In this position he commanded Operation Cerberus, better known as "the Channel Dash", when German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, and a number of other smaller vessels were transferred from Brest to their respective home bases in Germany for planned deployment to Norwegian waters in February 1942.