cardboard_killer Posted October 16, 2020 Posted October 16, 2020 [80 years ago today] "• Aircraft from HMS Furious bomb oil storage tanks at Tromsø and a seaplane dock at Skattøra, Norway. One Mark-II Skua is damaged by flak and Lt Edward Savage, feeling he won’t make it back to the carrier, heads for Sweden. Taken under Swedish AA fire, he lands in a lake near Gällivare, and as the plane is sinking, removes the new and secret dive bombing sight and throws it as far over the lake as he can. The Swedes question him in internment about why they could not locate the sight. - Savage and his navigator will be repatriated in December and make their way via the USSR, Turkey, and Syria to rejoin Furious in June, 1941." Blackburn Skua from Furious pulled from lake 2
cardboard_killer Posted October 16, 2020 Author Posted October 16, 2020 1 hour ago, messsucher said: Lol, Swedes tried to profit ? Pollute my waterways and you will pay!
messsucher Posted October 16, 2020 Posted October 16, 2020 12 minutes ago, cardboard_killer said: Pollute my waterways and you will pay! Oh cool, been there for a year studying in Blekinge Tekniska Högskola. Loved it, especially Mörrum, and agree, protect the waters! 1
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