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Old 5th Mar 2019, 23:06
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Originally Posted by Hipper
Norway is an area where a few WW2 German ships got spectacular damage.

Gneisenau:

Gneisenau - Gallery - Operation "Juno"

Prinz Eugen:

prinz eugen damaged stern - Google Search

Lutzow:

lutzow damaged stern - Google Search

All the ships got home and were repaired.
To be fair they probably would have been better off going to the med and tying up along side one of the Islands there like Cortina or Capri or hiding somewhere close to High Sierra mountains rather than making a right Model T of themselves in Norway.
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