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Ęgir outside Stavanger 9th of April1940

http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg/40-04.htm

Vor Stavanger wird das norw. Torpedoboot Aegir, das zuvor den deutschen Nachschubfrachter Roda (6780 BRT) versenkt hat, durch Fliegerangriff der III./KG.4 versenkt.

http://hem.fyristorg.com/robertm/norge/german-forces/Germ_Invasion_OB.html#Luftwaffe_OB

STAVANGER

Against Stavanger, an airborne operation consisting of a Luftwaffe parachute company was to be dropped on Sola airfield. Once the field was secured, 250 transport planes would land 5,000 German troops of 69-Infanterie-Division. Further supplies and heavy equipment were scheduled to arrive via unescorted merchant vessels metioned above. Norwegian naval forces in the vicinity included the destroyer escort AEGIR at Stavanger and the destroyer escort DRAUG at Haugesund just to the north.

The paratroopers, after dropping against the target, quickly captured Sola airfield and the air landing operation proceeded as planned. Two concrete mg posts which constituted the airfield's only defenses were first strafed by six Me-110 fighters, and then 120 men were dropped. Stavanger was then secured in short order. Most of the nine Caproni Ca310 scout planes the Norwegians had stationed at Sola managed to get airborne and escaped before the main attack. In the approaches to Stavanger, the AEGIR intercepted and sank the German supply ship ROTA, which was carrying much of the heavy equipment for the men brought in by air. AEGIR was later hit by a bomb in the engine room, beached and then abandoned, the crew having lost 10 men to German air attacks.

http://www.feldgrau.com/norwcoast.html
http://www.nuav.net/ooblw.html


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