Top Fighting Ships German Battlecruisers Scharnhorst - Gneisenau # 11

totalling almost 50000 tons. In 1941 RAF made many bombing attacks on Scharnhorst, causing enough damage to keep her in port for repairs for the year. Repair work and grounding kept Scharnhorst out of action until March 1943, when she went to northern Norway to join the battleship Tirpitz and other German ships threatening the Arctic convoys' route to the Soviet Union. Training exercises over the next several months climaxed in a bombardment of Spitsbergen on 8 September 1943, together with ...
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