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Gerd-Dietrich Schneider Died : 15 / 7 / 2004

Gerd-Dietrich Schneider (deceased) An experienced mine-sweeping officer, Gerd-Dietrich Schneider was Captain of the minehunter R25 in early 1942 operating in the English Channel, and was part of the Channel Dash Task Force. Later, in the Black Sea, he participated in the German invasion of the Crimea, sinking 2 Russian submarines. He transferred to an artillery bombardment flotilla for the German defence of the Allied invasion of France in 1944, and then covered the German retreat in the Baltic from the Russians. He was awarded the Knights Cross in 1944. He died on 15th July 2004.



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The Channel Dash by Robert Taylor. SOLD OUT

Mesherschmitt ME109s of JG 2 fly close escort as the German capital Ships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen, accompanied by a naval flotilla, round the tip of the Cherbourg Peninsula at dawn, February 12th 1942.......

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