Attack on Home Fleet 6 April 1940

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The naval flotillas that was observed and attacked in the Shetland area was: The Main strenght of the Home Fleet with 4 battleships, 3 heavy cruisers, 7 light cruisers and 14 destroyers under Adm Forbes and Adm Laytons detached force with 4 light cruisers and 7 destroyers. The air attack inflicted slight damage on the cruiser Southampten and Galatea, sinking the destroyer Gurkha,damage on the heavy cruiser Devonshire and the light cruiser Sheffield and Glasgow with near misses. One bomb hit the deck of battleship Rodney but failed to penetrate the deck armour

Ju 88 Losses

2 Ju 88 A-2 from 3./KG 30 (one of them 4D +AL)
1 Ju 88 A-1 from 4./KG 30
1 Ju 88 A from Stab III./KG 30 (Gruppenkommandeur Hptm S Mahrenholz)

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