What the records say
- When
- 30 Jul 1941
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 69.68° N, 30.69° E
- Description
- military operation in 1941
Placed at the middle of the 2 places Wikidata lists.
Operation EF (1941)
British WWII air raid in Norway and Finland
Operation EF (1941) took place on 30 July 1941, during the Second World War. After Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, Fleet Air Arm aircraft flew from the aircraft carriers HMS Victorious and Furious to attack merchant vessels in the northern Norwegian port of Kirkenes and the Finnish port of Liinakhamari in Petsamo.
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- Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Рейд на Киркенес и Петсамо: операция морской авиации военно-морского флота Великобритании по оказанию помощи частям РККА в Заполярье”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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