Thanks Andrus
That was interesting! Petsamo-Luostari was not a good airfield for bombers, but I suppose making a recce-mission instead of a bombing mission could do the trick.
Guess is, the crew either arrived during the evening the day before and got off on an early start after topping up their fuel or made an early start from Banak and topped up fuel along the way at Petsamo. I don't believe KG 30 ever had a detachment there.
Claiming they were lost, must mean they had encountered some dreadful weather. Navigating along a given coastline in decent weather is basically a piece of cake. Even I managed that....
This information thus came from Soviet sources. Good to know!
Cheers
Stig