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Re: Luftwaffe defence of Kirkenes/Petsamo July 1941
Notwithstanding the strategic importance of the Russian port of Murmansk, the Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht effort alike in the far north of Norway and Finland was a strategic backwater in comparison with what was going on along the 2,000 km wide front that stretched between the Baltic and Black Sea in July 1941.
I also thought that Germans and Finnish troops were on the offensive at that time with the mission to capture Murmansk? The Red Army did manage to check their advance, but was not exactly taking the offensive operations.
Perhaps your best chance to read about the Luftwaffe operations in the far north of the period would be in Eric Mombeeck's series of books Eismeerjaeger, part 1 and 2.
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