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World War II - The Unbelievable Sneakiest Move of the War

After months of dominating the Atlantic, the German Battleship Gneisenau and her sister ship, Scharnhorst, had wreaked havoc on Allied shipping lanes. In Operation Berlin alone, these juggernauts sank or captured 22 ships, accounting for a staggering 115,622 tons of Allied cargo. The Royal Air Force now had them in their crosshairs, placing the Kriegsmarine in a precarious situation. With both ships moored in Brest, France, they were under relentless assault from the RAF, who were resolute in their mission to annihilate them. Simultaneously, the vital presence of the Scharnhorst-class battleships was needed in Nazi-occupied Norway to deter British commandos from further incursions. Yet, the journey from Northern France to Norway was perilous, requiring either a circumvention of the British Isles or a daring breach of the heavily guarded English Channel. Each option was laden with seemingly insurmountable risks. Navigating northward around the British Isles meant dangerously skirting the formidable British main battle fleet stationed at Scapa Flow. An interception by the British forces would spell doom for the German behemoths. Conversely, braving the English Channel implied confronting the total onslaught of the RAF, not to mention navigating through perilous minefields, dodging torpedo boats, and breaking a tenacious naval blockade. With the stakes mounting, the Kriegsmarine resolved to undertake a challenge so audacious it had not been achieved by any hostile fleet in over three centuries: a daring sprint across the treacherous waters of the English Channel…