Operation Cerberus

[Diagram by types of ship] [Diagram by Task Groups]

Start: Thursday February 12, 1942 Ending: Friday February 13, 1942

Flight of the German cruisers Scharnhorst et Gneisenau through the Channel

Place: Channel

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Forces
  • Pizey (flotilla of Harwich): 6 destroyers.
  • RAF: 242 airplanes.
Total: 6 destroyers, 242 airplanes
  • Ciliax: 2 battlecruisers, 1 heavy cruiser.
  • Bey (screen of destroyers): 5 destroyers.
  • Erdmann (2th torpedo boats flotilla, starting from Le Have and joinging off Cherbourg): 5 fleet torpedo boats.
  • Wilcke (3th torpedo boats flotilla, coming from Dunkirk and joining the convoy off Le Havre): 4 fleet torpedo boats.
  • Schmidt (5th Torpedo Boat flotilla, joins the convoy off Cape Griz Nez): 5 fleet torpedo boats.
  • Sperrle (Luftflotte 3): 252 airplanes.
Total: 2 battlecruisers, 1 heavy cruiser, 5 destroyers, 14 fleet torpedo boats, 252 airplanes
Losses 17 fighters, 26 bombers lost. 17 airplanes lost.


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