German battleship Scharnhorst damaged in British air attack according to the U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary dated 8 January 1942

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An item referred to the British Admiralty reporting that the German battleship Scharnhorst [lying at Brest, France] was hit forward on the port side causing unknown damage. The J.I.C. commented that earlier reports claimed that at the end of December she was ready to go to sea. (1)

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1. Scharnhorst-class preceded by planned L20e a-class and realized Bayern-class succeeded by Bismarch-class, laid down at the Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhemshaven, Germany on 15 June 1935, launched on 3 October 1936, commissioned on 7 January 1939 and sunk while in battle off the North Cape on 26 December 1943 by the British battleship HMS Duke of York with just 36 survivors of a crew of 1,968 men. Her sister ship was the Gneisenau. The Scharnhorst was to replace the old dreadnought Elsass and so she became first know in official documents and newspaper as the Ersatz Elsass and in the contracts as “D”.