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Run the Gauntlet: the Channel Dash 1942 Free FREE RUN THE GAUNTLET: THE CHANNEL DASH 1942 PDF Ken Ford,Alan Gilliland,Howard Gerrard,Paul Wright | 80 pages | 21 Feb 2012 | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | 9781849085700 | English | Oxford, England, United Kingdom Run The Gauntlet: The Channel Dash - Ken Ford - Google книги JavaScript seems to be disabled in your browser. You must have JavaScript enabled in your browser to utilize the functionality of this website. This website uses cookies to provide all of its features. By using our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. Enter your Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 address below to sign up to our General newsletter for updates from Osprey Publishing, Osprey Games and our parent company Bloomsbury. Add to Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942. About this Product. In Februarythree of the major ships of the German surface fleet - the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage back to Germany. Passing through the straights of Dover, the ships faced everything the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy could throw at them. In a dramatic running fight, the ships managed to sail right under the nose of history's greatest maritime nation to reach the safety of Germany. The brilliantly executed operation brought great humiliation to the British - Hitler, who had developed the plan, had judged perfectly the reaction of the British command to the Channel Dash. This book tells the complete story of this great race, from the planning through to the repercussions of this unique Germany victory. Biographical Note. 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Rating details. Book ratings by Goodreads. Goodreads is the world's largest site for readers with over 50 million reviews. We're featuring millions of their reader ratings on our book pages to help you find your new favourite book. Close X. Learn about new offers and get more deals by joining our newsletter. Sign up now. Follow us. Coronavirus delivery updates. Run The Gauntlet - Osprey Publishing Scharnhorst and Gneisenau had arrived in Brest on 22 March after the success of Operation Berlin in the Atlantic. More raids were planned and the ships were refitted at Brest. The short route up the English Channel was preferred to a detour around the British Isles for surprise and air cover by the Luftwaffe and on 12 JanuaryHitler gave orders for the operation. The British exploited decrypts of German radio messages coded with the Enigma machineair reconnaissance by the RAF Photographic Reconnaissance Unit PRU and agents in France to watch the ships and report the damage caused by the bombing. The RAF had sent squadrons from Bomber and Coastal commands overseas and kept torpedo-bombers in Scotland ready for Tirpitzwhich limited the number of aircraft available against a dash up the Channel, as Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 the winter weather which reduced visibility and blocked airfields with snow. Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 11 Februarythe ships left Brest at p. The Luftwaffe Unternehmen Donnerkeil Operation Thunderbolt provided air cover and as the ships neared Dover, the British belatedly responded; operations by the RAF, Fleet Air ArmNavy and coastal artillery were costly failures but Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were damaged by mines in the North Sea Scharnhorst was out of action for a year. By 13 February, the ships had reached German ports, Winston Churchill had ordered an inquiry into the debacle and The Times had denounced the British fiasco. The Kriegsmarine judged the operation a tactical success and a strategic failure; the threat to Atlantic convoys had been sacrificed for a hypothetical threat to Norway. On 23 February, Prinz Eugen was torpedoed off Norway; after being repaired, it spent the rest of the war in the Baltic. German commerce raiding against British north Atlantic convoys was made easier by the capture of Norway and France in An abortive sortie by the cruiser Admiral Hipper ended at Brest, at the west end of the Brittany peninsula, on 27 December After five weeks of bombing to no effect, the ship put to Run the Gauntlet: The Channel Dash 1942 on 1 Februarysank numerous ships and returned on 14 February, before sailing to Germany using the roundabout route via the Denmark Strait the next day, reaching Kiel on 28 March.
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