Shot down by Skua 6A:L-2940
on fighter patrol over Åndalsnes. Capt.R.T. Partridge
and R.S. Bostock from carrier Ark Royal.
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sørensen
Photos
19.6 2003
Besetningen tente
på bombeblyet etter landing.
Motorer og div skrogrester ligger ved sør-østenden på
vannet, like ved gangbrua.
Rester etter tysk
minneplate ved en stor stein, bak hotellet på Grotli.
Took
off from Aalborg West in Denmark on a mission to Åndalsnes-Dombås
area. They made a bombing run on the British cruiser "Flamingo" in
Romsdalfjord when they were attacked by three Skuas(803Sqdn) from "Ark
Royal". The Heinkel bomber made a forced landing beside lake Heilstuguvatnet.
Pilot Fn. Horst Schopis.(27) Fw.Karlheinz Strunk,(25) accidentaly shot dead by a Norwegian soldier after landing. Uffz.
Hans Hauck,(26)killed in the attack. Uffz.Josef
Auchtor,(25)wounded by fire from the Skuas.
The
Skua got engine trouble and had to force land on the frozen lake Breiddalsvannet.
This aircraft was later salvaged and brought to Great Brittain in the 1970s
