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Description Looking down on Lodingen Harbour, Norway as (left) a tanker receives a direct hit, four supply ships are set on fire and (in background near shore) an auxiliary vessel is left blazing. Photographs taken from a Fairey Firefly of the aircraft carrier HMS IMPLACABLE during operations against enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast near Bodo by the carrier-borne aircraft. Original caption notes: A total of six enemy ships (comprising two supply ships, a medium sized tanker, an aircraft tender and two naval auxiliary vessels) were sunk and in addition a large U-Boat was attacked and driven ashore. A further nineteen enemy vessels were damaged and an armed coaster and an armed trawler were driven ashore.
Date - 09-28
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This photograph A 26164 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no. 4700-01 )
Author Royal Navy official photographer

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