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Old 19th October 2024, 16:53
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Re: The pilot who sank the BJÖNN?

Colleagues, thank you.

During the week, 2 Beauforts, 1 Liberator
and 12 Hudsons attacked merchant ships, dropping 7.76 tons of ammunition, but no results are given.


I do not know the dates covered by this report, but in the next few days the following results were recorded off the Norwegian coast alone:
On 3 December the steamship NORDLICHT, loaded with Christmas presents for the troops in northern Norway, was attacked by an aircraft (squadron unknown) near Faistein and was hit by a bomb. The ship reached Stavanger under her own power and was kept afloat by rescue ships. On 4 December the Norwegian steamship VESTRI (490 GRT) was attacked half an hour after leaving Stavanger for Oslo by a single aircraft (squadron unknown), was hit twice by bombs and ran aground where she burned. On 10 December in Rødnefjord the 220th Squadron attacked a "small convoy" and "one ship was hit". On December 14, northwest of Haugesund, aircraft (squadron unknown) sank the trawler TOPAZ (149 GRT) with a cargo of 35 tons of dynamite.
The 42nd, 220th, 320th and 608th squadrons of Coastal Command operated in this area, but the Beauforts often used bombs rather than torpedoes for attacks.

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