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Opération Musketoon

[Diagram by Task Groups]

Start: Tuesday September 15, 1942 Ending: Monday September 21, 1942

Click with the mouse to have an enlargementSabotaging raid against an aluminium plant in the Glomfjord south of Narvik. It is successful since the factory was not repaired until the end of the war.

Place: NorwayType: Commando

AlliesGermany
Forces
  • Commando transport: 1 mine layer submarine.
  • Escort at the departure from the Orkneys: 3 submarines.
Total: 3 submarines, 1 mine layer submarine
12 men.
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Losses8 deads. Among them seven prisonners executed on Hitler's special order.-

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