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The Channel Dash was a major naval engagement during World War II in which a German Kriegsmarine squadron consisting of Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Prinz Eugen, supported by a number of smaller ships, ran a British blockade and successfully sailed from Brest in Brittany to their home bases in Germany via the English Channel.
English losses
1 destroyer heavily damaged
42 aircraft destroyed
40 dead and missing
21 wounded
German losses
1 battlecruiser damaged
1 battlecruiser lightly damaged
2 torpedo boats lightly damaged
17 aircraft destroyed
13 dead
2 wounded
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