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Episode 15: The Norway-Russia Border

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The Battle of the North Cape

HMS Belfast was there and it obtained radar contact on the Scharnhorst. One shell destroyed the forward radar controls, which left them blind. So this enormous ship that had been the scourge of the convoys still has all these kind of realies, but it can't see. And so once it was blinded, it tried to run away. Then you had essentially what I imagine is being a typical naval battle with, you know, fraud sides being fired. The Belfast fired some star shells into the sky which illuminated the Scharn Horst and it was then sunk.

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