Operation Rösselsprung (1942)
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This article is about the plan by the German Kriegsmarine to intercept an Arctic convoy in mid–1942. For the German operation aimed at capturing or killing the Yugoslav Partisan leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito, see Operation Rösselsprung (1944).
Unternehmen Rösselsprung (Operation Knight's Move) was a plan by the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) to intercept an Arctic convoy in mid-1942. It was the largest operation of its type mounted by the Kriegsmarine and resulted in the near-destruction of Convoy PQ 17. The success of the operation was indirect none of the ships engaged the convoy, its losses inflicted by U-boat and aircraft attacks. Despite not making contact with the convoy a number of the ships of Unternehmen Rösselsprung were damaged and the heavy cruiser German cruiser Lützow (1940), ran aground in thick fog, needing three months of repairs.
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Part of Arctic naval operations of World War II | |
Type | Naval operation |
Location | The Norwegian Sea 69°N 02°E |
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