Two Ju87s shot down by Convoy PQ4 22/11/41?

[BrianC]

Hi guys

The following is an extract from the diary of an MN officer aboard one of the freighters of PQ4. I have been unable to verify the claims. Can anyone advise, please?

November 22nd.Crossed Arctic Circle. Course for 75 N. I believe. Stukas dive-bombed the convoy. The flutes under the wings gave a banshee wail and every seventh shell was a tracer so when one of the gunners on the port wing Oerlikon was hit by a tracer it cauterised the wound and he survived the rough handling when the skipper ordered "that corpse off the bridge"I put him in the shelter of the wheelhouse which was re-inforced with concrete slabs) and took over the gun for a few exciting seconds. We were in the vicinity of Jan Mayen island at the extremity of the Stuka's range so it was a short lived raid. They lost two planes and the crew were dead when picked up. Temp. 40 below.


And who were the fatalities?

Cheers
Brian