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North Cape: The Hunt That Doomed the Scharnhorst

In the freezing darkness of the Arctic on December 26, 1943, one of the most decisive naval hunts of World War II unfolded — the Battle of North Cape, where the Royal Navy trapped and destroyed the German battleship Scharnhorst, the last major surface threat to Allied Arctic convoys. This documentary explains how Admiral Bruce Fraser built a carefully coordinated radar trap using cruisers, destroyers, and his flagship HMS Duke of York to track a ship he could not see with the naked eye. Guided by Ultra intelligence and revolutionary radar-directed gunnery, British forces shadowed Scharnhorst through a polar storm, crippled her with long-range fire, and finished her with torpedoes in a relentless night battle. Beyond the dramatic firefight, the video shows why this victory mattered strategically: it secured lifeline convoys to the Soviet Union, freed major Allied warships for the coming invasion of Normandy, and proved that electronic warfare — not eyesight — would define modern naval combat. More than a battle, North Cape marks the moment when technology permanently changed how wars at sea were fought — a shift from human vision to radar, mathematics, and coordinated networks of ships.