Battle of the Barents Sea
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The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement on 31 December 1942 between warships of the German Navy and British ships escorting Convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The actio
Battle of the Barents Sea Irwin J. Kappes, 2009
Battle of the Barents Sea
Erich Raeder with Adolf Hitler shortly after he resigned from his post of commander in chief of the Navy in 1943
Battle of the North Cape
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The Battle of the North Cape was a Second World War naval battle on 26 December 1943, part of the Arctic campaign. The German battleship Scharnhorst sailed to implement Operation Ostfront, an attack o
Battle of the Barents Sea
…the battle, the attempted raid on Convoy JW 55B by the battleship Scharnhorst. The battleship was sunk by a British force in what became known as the Battle of the North Cape. Captain Robert Sherbrooke was awarded the Victoria Cross. He acknowledged that it had really been awarded in honour of the whole crew of Onslow. In…
German battleship Scharnhorst, c. 1939
British battleship Duke of York
British heavy cruiser Norfolk
A close up view of the damage received by HMS Saumarez from an 11-inch shell fired by Scharnhorst during the battle