FW 200 in Lapland war

[Fanair]

Do you know what unit of FW 200 used HS 293 during attacks in Finland during the Lapland war ?

thank you very much

Alain

[Chris Goss]

The HS 293 was essentially an anti-shipping weapon & if you mean the war Sep-Nov 1944, the Fw 200 was being used in the north in a transport role, KG 40 being all but disbanded. However I would be interested in your source as I would love to be proven wrong

[Fanair]

Hello Chris,I read in an article about the Lapland war that HS 293 missiles were launched by FW 200 of KG 40 I presume, against bunkers I think, but this mission is not recorded in your excellent book.

yours faithfully

Alain

[Kari Lumppio]

Hi!

Finns made an invasion to Tornio harbour Röyttä (wiki in Finnish: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B...4n_maihinnousu try Google Translate or something).
In short the invasion consisted of sailing to the harbour with commercial ships crammed with soldiers and weapons. Took Germans by surprise.

German did indeed launch Hs 293s from Fw 200 against the ships unloading in the harbour. I have no time to collect the details right now,


Cheers,
Kari

EDIT Google really mangles the text, but better than nothing

[edwest2]

A translation of the wikipedia article:

https://translate.google.com/transla...su&prev=search

An English language wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapland_War

[Kari Lumppio]

Good work, Ed! That Lapland War wikiarticle is good. Did not know about it.

Happy New Year to all forumers!

Kari

[Chris Goss]

Interesting but it would be good to see firm documentary evidence that this was the Condor's last fling. It could only have been elements of III./KG 40 if this was the case by which date it had hardly anything operational

[Kari Lumppio]

Hello!

Documentary evidence. 18. Kevyt ilmatorjuntapatteri (18. Light AAA Battery) war diary.

http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=2827190

6.10 (time) 16.20
2/FW-200 from North to East. Planes dropped 2 torpedoes, which apparently flew with rocket power, towards ship wreck at harbour.

18. Kev.It.Ptri was on deck of Canopus (ship)

Cheers,
Kari

[Kari Lumppio]

Hello!

One more mention of Fw 200s over Röyttä 6.10.1944:

II/5 Kev.It.Ptri diary (II section, 5. AAA battery on ship Bore IX deck) 6.10:
http://digi.narc.fi/digi/view.ka?kuid=2823804

Cheers,
Kari

[Chris Goss]

Kari
Most interesting. Just would like something from the German side as why two aircraft with one missile each when they could carry two each if they were indeed Condors. I wonder if they were aircraft from Karlshagen where there would have probably been stocks of Hs 293s?