Attack on PQ17

[Tor]

These photos are after a man serving in 3 Staffel I/KG 26.

The first photo shows the planes leaving Banak and out Porsangerfjorden.

[Tor]

Closing in on PQ 17

The main land is behind the squadron and the bearing is stright towards PQ17

[Tor]

PQ17 is found

- and the attack has started!

[Tor]

Airplanes attacking

The rest of the photos from this man will be found at www.krigsbilder.net in the coming weeks.

[byterock]

don't see photos like these every day.

Common enough for the Pacific war but for the Atlantic??

The photographer certainly has 'sang-froid' that day.

[Mil-Archive]

Those are very interesting. In the last picture some of them look to be about 25 ft off the water.

[byterock]

could be this attack

4 Jul 1942 Allied convoy PQ-17 was attacked by 24 German He 111 aircraft about 60 miles north of Bear Island, Norway, fatally damaging US freighter Christopher Newport which would later be scuttled by a British submarine (3 were killed, 47 survived); at 1930 hours, another attack wave came upon the convoy, causing no damage; at 2020 hours, the convoy was attacked by 25 aircraft, sinking British freighter Navarino, sinking US freighter William Hooper (3 were killed, 55 survived), and damaging Soviet tanker Azerbaijan; at 2100 hours, believing that German battleships might be in the area, PQ-17 was ordered to scatter and the convoy escorts were withdrawn. Sailing in the opposite direction, QP-13 broke up to two convoys, one of which ran into a minefield; several ships struck mines and sank (British minesweeper HMS Niger (149 were killed), freighter Hybert, freighter Heffron, freighter Massmar (17 were killed), and Soviet passenger ship Rodina (several family members of Soviet diplomats were killed)), and several others were damaged (civilian commodore's ship American Robin, freighter Exterminator, and freighter John Randolph); HMS Hussar was able to lead the survivors out of the

[Simon O.]

Could be from several of the PQ convoys