Originally Posted by mikey117us

Someone will need to make the Camoflage Netting for Scharnhorst and Gneneisenau? Their stay in Brest until the Channel Dash was NOT uneventful for the Port of Brest. Hidden in the furthest corners out of sight and well camoflaged ( and both excellent Flak Ships ) as a result of Night One of their Arrival. Docked in their Berths the Commanders and Officers Met for Dinner with the Kreigsmarine Admiral and Staff of Headquarters at the 5 Star Hotel Procured as their Headquarters Building. Sitting down to their meal it was interrupted by Air Raid Horns ( aooga ) and Sirens. Enter Bomber Harris and the R.A.F. Bomber Command. That first sorte did little damage to the ships that were to become the obsession of Bomber Harris, but a direct hit on the Hotel killed most of the Staff Officers of both ships and headquarters. Up to 10% of the entire Bomber Command Aircraft ( including the short lived Avro Manchester which had its teething in combat at Brest ) Blenheims, Beuforts, Hampdens, Wellingtons. What ever they had flew up to 1,705 Sorties a month for at least a year. Air Raids happened round the Clock. Brest Countered by First Sending one Staffel of JG26 in BF109
E-7s to Maintain Air Defense over Brest. This was short lived as JG26 was Flying one Staffel at a time back to Germany
For Conversion Training into the new BF109F-2. Enter JG2 Richthofen Geschwader. Which eventually converted to ****e-Wulf 190 A-0 ( the Butcher Bird ) which had horrible engine fire problems until the FW190A-5 Luftwaffe Defense of Brest and the Bay of Biscay was Weak at best, and non existent at worst. It was up to the Flak Batteries at Brest and every armed vessel and down to the gefreiter grabbing a rifle to defend attacks from the air. Doubling the Amount of workers on building the U-Boat pens was ordered with prority shipments of Steel and Concrete being diverted from the Atlantic Wall . The Pens themselves had plenty of rooftop space to accommodate Light Flak Units. When the Flakvierlengs were ordered for U-Boat Armaments on the Failed Turm VIIc/IV U-Flak Boats that escorted boats into Biscay, were converted back to regular turms, they added each extra Gun to the Harbor Defense. Brest was not just a Naval Port and Harbor captured intact, it was the Jewel of the Crown!