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The Channel Dash, codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans, was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst-class battleships, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen along with escorts, ran a British blockade and successfully sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel.

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  • The Channel Dash, codenamed Operation Cerberus by the Germans, was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of both Scharnhorst-class battleships, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen along with escorts, ran a British blockade and successfully sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel.
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  • Channel Dash
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  • 1 destroyer damaged
  • 1 destroyer lightly damaged
  • 13 sailors dead
  • 2 battleships damaged
  • 2 sailors wounded
  • 2 torpedo boats lightly damaged
  • 22 aircraft destroyed
  • 23 airmen killed
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  • German success
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  • 2 battleships
  • 6 destroyers
  • 1 heavy cruiser
  • 14 torpedo boats
  • 252 fighters
  • 26E-boats
  • 3 destroyer escorts
  • 32 bombers
  • 32 motor torpedo boats
  • ~450 aircraft
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