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ATTACK ON THE KONIGSBERG APRIL 1940

Prewar photograph of Konigsberg

AIRCREW TAKING PART IN THE ATTACK ON THE KONIGSBERG APRIL 1940 The attack by 800 and 803 squadrons on the German cruiser Konigsberg in Bergen harbour on 10th April 1940, was the first dive-bombing attack by the Fleet Air Arm in the Second World War. Aircrews: 800 squadron Partridge, RT Capt RM 800 sqdn Hare, G Lt Cdr RN 800sqdn Monk, HA P/O 800 sqdn Lucy, WP Lt RN 803 sdqn Eccleshall, LC L/A 800 sdqn Hadley, J P/O 800sqdn Hall, AM L/A 800sqdn Taylour, WT EWT RN 800sqdn Cunningham, HG P/O 800sqdn Rooper, JA Lt RN 800sqdn Rolph, RS P/O Spurway, KVV Lt 800sqdn Cotterill, CJE P/O 800sqdn Gardner, JA P/O 800sqdn Todd, A N/A 800 sqdn 803 squadron Hanson, CE Lt RN 803 sqdn MacIver, ED Capt RM 803 sqdn Barnard, AAA L/A 803 sqdn Smeeton, BJ Lt RN 803 sqdn (failed to return) Watkinson, F Mid RN 803 sqdn (failed to return) Harris, ABF Lt RN 803 sqdn Russell, GS L/A 803 sqdn Torin, HER Lt RN 803 sqdn McKee, TA Mid 803 sqdn Harris, LA Lt 803 sqdn Prime, DA N/A 803 sqdn Church, WCA Lt RN 803 sqdn Seymour, BM P/O 803 sqdn Filmer, CH Lt 803 sdqn Dooley, FP, N/A 803 sqdn Riddler, TF P/O 803 sqdn Chattersley, HT N/A 803 sqdn

FURTHER INFORMATION
The Sinking of the Konigsberg. In website BLACKBURN SKUA
DIVE BOMBING'S FIRST VICTIM By NJ Hickman	About the attack on Konigsberg
Dive Bomber! An illustrated history by Peter C Smith. ISBN 086190 062 6, published by Moorland publishing Co in the UK and the Naval Institute Press in the USA.	Covers the Skuas use as a dive bomber. The only published account of the attack on the Konigsberg in any detail.
Christopher Shores and Clive Williams, Aces High: a tribute to the most notable fighter pilots of the British and Commonwealth Forces in WWII, Grub Street publishers, 1994
Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995)	Sturtivant, R. & Burrow, M (1995)  'Fleet Air Arm Aircraft 1939 to 1945'  Published by Air Britain (Historians) Ltd, 1995 ISBN: 0 85130 232 7

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