The battle cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and the cruiser Prinz Eugen with screening destroyers leave the French port of Brest through the English Channel to the relative safety of the Elbe Estuary.

The air cover for the fleet was under the command of Adolf Galland, the success of the operation depending on the air cover which was brilliantly planned and executed. 

The large remarqued print is signed by Luftwaffe pilot Adolf Galland,Gerhard Schopfel, Adolf Glunz and Kreigsmarine Captains Freidrich-Karl Paul and Gerd-Dietrich Schneider

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