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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 69744

Operation "Cerberus", February 1942


German heavy ships speeding through the English Channel, en route from Brest to Wilhelmshaven, 12 February 1942. Photographed from the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Next ship ahead is the battleship Gneisenau, with Scharnhorst in the distance.

Copied from the report of officers of Prinz Eugen, with some identification by her Gunnery Officer, Paul S. Schmalenbach, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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7 March 2001