Unternehmen Cerberus
After serving with No. 92 Squadron, Kingcome was briefly posted as flight commander at No 61 Operational Training Unit in late 1941. In February 1942, he returned to operations as CO of No. 72 Squadron RAF. Almost immediately he was ordered to provide escort cover for the ill-fated Fleet Air Arm Swordfish attack on the German capital ship "Gneisenau", the cruiser ship Prinz Eugen and the capital ship "Scharnhorst" as they sailed through the Channel in an attempt to reach Kiel, Germany during operation Channel Dash.