By Ken Ford
Osprey Raid sequence #28
In February 1942, 3 of the key ships of the German floor fleet - the battle-cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen - stormed out of the harbour at Brest on a dramatic voyage again to Germany. Passing throughout the straights of Dover, the ships confronted every little thing the Royal Air strength and the Royal army may well throw at them. In a dramatic operating struggle, the ships controlled to sail correct less than the nostril of history's maximum maritime country to arrive the security of Germany. The brilliantly finished operation introduced nice humiliation to the British - Hitler, who had constructed the plan, had judged completely the response of the British command to the Channel sprint. Repositioned, those speedy, seriously armed ships went directly to threaten the Allied Arctic convoys that saved Russia within the warfare at Stalingrad. This e-book tells the whole tale of this nice race, from the making plans via to the repercussions of this targeted Germany victory.
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On 30 January, the carrier Eagle in the Clyde was put on four hours notice to be ready should the battlecruisers break out into the Atlantic. The Admiralty were also concerned about the security of a large troop convoy that was due to leave the UK for Sierra Leone on 14 February. Escort for the convoy was to be provided by the battleship Malaya, the cruiser Hermione and several destroyers. The battleship Rodney was now ordered north from Gibraltar to give added protection. As each day’s reconnaissance reports were received, it became clear that the time was approaching when the battlefleet would be ready to sail.
11 Group was in the air at 1020hrs. It was flown by two Spitfires of 91 Squadron from Hawkinge airfield. Leading the sortie was Squadron Leader Oxspring with Sergeant Beaumont flying with him in the second Spitfire. By this time the weather was closing in with low cloud and squally showers. Visibility was poor when, some 7 miles off Boulogne, Oxspring noticed two lines of E-boats totalling nine craft moving eastwards along the Channel. Then, 3 miles up ahead of him, through the haze, he spotted a great number of ships.
Perhaps to assuage his conscience, Ramsay put a call through to the head of the Royal Navy, Sir Dudley Pound, requesting permission not to have to commit 825 Squadron to such a forlorn endeavour. ’ Reluctantly, Ramsay gave the order for the Swordfish attack to go ahead, but was still troubled by what he was asking Esmonde to do. He requested the RAF liaison officer, Group Captain Constable-Roberts, to talk to Esmonde about making the attack and to leave the final decision to the young naval pilot himself.
