OPERATION CERBERUS: “CHANNEL DASH” OUTSMARTS BRITISH NAVY
Off Cherbourg Coast, Occupied France • February 12, 1942 At dawn on February 12, 1942, a Kriegsmarine (German Navy) battle fleet rounded the Cherbourg peninsula in German-occupied Normandy. Bolting from the port of Brest in neighboring Brittany late the previous night, twin sister battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, together with heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and supporting vessels,…