ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 244899
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| Date: | Saturday 27 April 1940 |
| Time: | c. |
| Type: |  Heinkel He 111 H-3 |
| Owner/operator: | 9./III./KG 26 Luftwaffe |
| Registration: | 1H+CT. |
| MSN: | 3178 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | lake Heilstuguvatnet, Oppland county, -
 Norway
|
| Phase: | Combat |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Aalborg Air Base, Vadum, Denmark |
| Aalborg Air Base, Vadum, Denmark |
Heinkel 111, 1H+CT operating out of Aalborg Air Base, Vadum, Denmark, was on a bombing mission to Romsdalfjord, Norway when it was shot down by a 800 Sqn FAA RN, Skua L2940 from HMS Ark Royal, flown by Pilot, Captain R. T. Partridge and Observer, Lieutenant, Robert S. Bostock during a patrol over the Andalsnes area of Norway on 27th April. The Heinkel 111 with the crew of four force landed beside lake Heilstuguvatnet, 58 miles South East of Aalesund, Norway. Pilot Leutnant, Horst Schopis and Feldwebel, Karl-Heinz Strunk survived without injury, Unteroffizier, Hans Hauck, was killed and Unteroffizier Josef Author was wounded by fire during the air combat. Skua L2940, with combat damage, suffered engine failure following the attack and was forced to carry out a belly landed on frozen lake Breidalsvatnet near Grotli, Norway without injury to either of the crew.
Lake Breiddalsvatnet and Lake Heillstuguvatnet where the Skua and Heinkel force landed are located within 2 miles of each other. Subsequently the British and German aircrews met each other in a local hunters cabin where Feldwebel, Karlheinz Strunk, was shot dead by a Norwegian soldier. A film loosely based upon the the combat, meeting and fates of the two aircrews called "Into the White" was released in 2012.
Sources:
https://tihlde.org/~ktsorens/flyvrak/grotli.html
https://www.fleetairarmoa.org/news/on-this-day-27-april-1940
http://www.airwar.ru/history/av2ww/allies/skua/skua.html
http://skua.no/page3.html
https://military.wikia.org/wiki/Blackburn_Skua
http://skua.no/Operation%20Skua%20story%202.txt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_the_White
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 15-Nov-2020 03:15 | Peter Clarke | Added |
| 31-Jan-2021 17:00 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type, Operator, Departure airport, Destination airport, Operator] |
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