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Old 25th January 2012, 15:15
Kari Lumppio Kari Lumppio is offline
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Re: 812 sqn Swordfishes in the Petsamo raid?

Hello!

According this Finnish language Wikipedia page ( http://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liinahamarin_pommitus_1941 ) casualties at Petsamo were:

- three dead (two German soldiers and merchant seaman (Finn?))

- four Finnish civilian wounded, one of them seriously

One Norwegian civilian ship was sunk with it's rum cargo.

I did not check you namelist (from the Finnish War Casualties database ?), they are in all probability from other sites and sectors.

The quick search with terms Liinahamarin pommitus brought also this photo:

http://www.palasuomenhistoriaa.net/k...slides/105.jpg



It is one photo from thread http://mave.foorumi.eu/viewtopic.php...301&start=1905 (in Finnish). The Finnish text claims the photo is taken just after the Liinahamari attack. I wonder the ships which were there not during the attack, though. Perhaps photo is taken much more later?
LATER EDIT: In The London Gazette -article there reads clearly: "...Other than above, there were only small harbour craft present at Liinahamari, and three motor-boats, possibly E-boats. So I had it wrong and the German looking boats in the photo most likely are the mentioned E-boats. Pretty accurate reporting from the FAA aviators, if you ask me.

The thread also has photo of one dead British aviator for which I wish not put a hot link. I haven't ever before seen the mave.foorumi -photos and don't know who posesses them.

Translate.google can handle Finnish to English translation (but very poorly).


I also remember that Finnish magazine Suomen kuvalehti would have had an article with photos of the Liinahamari attack in a 1941 issue. They still publish and homepage is: http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/


In meantime there has been activity also at the Britmodeller thread (also by me). Perhaps new info too?


Cheers,
Kari

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