Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

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Jordi Comas
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Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

Post by Jordi Comas » Sun Jul 28, 2019 5:33 pm

Hi again,

German battlecruiser Gneisenau suffered some casualties 18/12/41 during a RAF air raid over Brest. Anyobody knows how many casualties there were?

German battlecruiser Scharnhorst also suffered some casualties 12/3/42 during a RAF air raid over Kiel. Anybody knows how many casualties there were?

Thank you very much
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t-geronimo
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Re: Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

Post by t-geronimo » Tue Jul 30, 2019 8:42 pm

Gneisenau:
2 dead, 3 heavily and 9 lightly wounded.

Scharnhorst:
Nothing about casualties mentioned in her war diary.
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Re: Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

Post by Jordi Comas » Wed Jul 31, 2019 4:04 pm

Thank you Thorsten!

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Re: Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

Post by Laurent Rizzotti » Thu Sep 12, 2019 2:44 pm

Check https://historisches-marinearchiv.de/pr ... cl2=search

For 18 December 1941, there is one dead listed for Scharnhorst.

For 12 March 1942, one dead in Kiel but no ship listed.

You can also search by ship name, many casualties for example for Gneisenau for 10 April 1941 and 26 February 1942
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Re: Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

Post by Darius » Thu Sep 12, 2019 7:36 pm

Hello Laurent,

this database is not a complete list of all names of crew members.
The HMA-team is thankfull for, if data can be veryfied or added.

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Darius
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Re: Gneisenau - Scharnhorst casualties

Post by Jordi Comas » Sat Sep 14, 2019 9:15 am

Thank you for the link,

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