• Kilbotn is a village in Harstad Municipality in Troms county, Norway. The village is located about 12 km (7.5 mi) south of the center of the town of Harstad...
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    natural harbour at Kilbotn. It lasted seven minutes and left two ships and a U-boat sunk. No Norwegians in the village of Kilbotn were killed or injured...
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  • Operation Judgement (1945), a British naval attack on a German U-boat base at Kilbotn, Norway This set index article includes a list of related items that share...
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  • The village is located nearby the villages of Sørvika, Sandtorg, and Kilbotn. "Fauskevåg, Harstad" (in Norwegian). yr.no. Retrieved 2012-08-27. Store...
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  • of this objective, and the depot at Kilbotn was eventually attacked successfully in Operation Judgement, Kilbotn on 4 May 1945. The force left Scapa Flow...
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    part in Operation Judgement, the last air-raid of the European war, at Kilbotn, Norway. After hostilities ceased, she was converted to a troop carrier...
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    to take part in Operation Judgement, an attack on the U-boat depot at Kilbotn, Norway, contributing eight Grumman Avengers and four Grumman Wildcats...
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    Musketoon Operation Freshman Operation Checkmate Operation Judgement, Kilbotn With the beginning of the German withdrawal from Lapland, the initial German...
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    Operation Judgement, Kilbotn took place on 4 May 1945, when the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy attacked a U-boat base at Kilbotn, a village in the Harstad...
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    Admiral Rhoderick McGrigor off North Norway during Operation Judgement, Kilbotn, an attack by the Fleet Air Arm on a U-boat base which destroyed two ships...
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    taking part in Operation Judgement, sank the German submarine U-711 in Kilbotn harbour in the Arctic near Harstad, Norway. Grumman TBF Avenger torpedo...
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  • Service Cross for his part in the attack on the German U-boat base at Kilbotn in Norway on 4 May 1945. The attack was the last British air raid of the...
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  • Judgement, an attack on the depot ships MS Black Watch and Senja anchored at Kilbotn, south of Harstad, Norway. This was the last air-raid of the war in Europe...
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    third patrol began on 25 November 1944 after she left the port city of Kilbotn. For 22 days, she traveled through the Arctic Ocean in search of any Allied...
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    678 depth charge attempts. On 2 May 1945, U-427 returned to its base at Kilbotn, Norway, where it remained for the few remaining days before Germany's...
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  • four Wildcat aircraft of the squadron took part in Operation Judgement, Kilbotn, the last air-raid of the war in Europe. The fighter flight was disbanded...
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  • the aircraft carriers HMS Queen. HMS Trumpeter, and HMS Searcher against Kilbotn, Norway, sinking a German depot ship and submarine. It is the last air...
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  • (CVE/D05) HMS Puncher (CVE-53/D79) RN air attack on U-Boat Depot Ships at Kilbotn (6 April 1945) Operation NEWMARKET RN: HMS Queen (CVE-49/D19/R320) HMS...
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  • based at Kilbotn, from whence she sailed on her seventh and eighth patrols. Following the German capitulation, U-312 was moved, first from Kilbotn to Narvik...
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    Trumpeter as their aircraft attacked shipping off the coast of Norway and at Kilbotn harbour near Narvik, sinking the submarine U-711, the depot ship Black...
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  • Norway: e.g. Egersund, Bergen, Kristiansand, Arendal, Trondheim, Bogenbucht, Kilbotn, Harstad and Narvik, but none of them was longer than 32 days. At the end...
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  • 63361 (Keiprød) 9465 Lavangen Kilbotn 68°43′03″N 16°32′00″E / 68.71750°N 16.53333°E / 68.71750; 16.53333 (Kilbotn) 9415 Harstad Kirkesjorda 68°53′21″N...
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  • Patrol number six was preceded by trips between Narvik, Trondheim and Kilbotn, (northwest of Narvik). U-363's last patrol in April and May 1945 was followed...
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  • II: Operation Judgement: The accommodation ship was bombed and sunk at Kilbotn, Norway by Grumman TBF Avenger and Grumman F4F Wildcat aircraft of 846...
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  • from Searcher, HMS Trumpeter and Queen attacked a German U-boat base at Kilbotn, Norway on 4 May 1945, the last combat operation by the Home Fleet. The...
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  • October. Her eighth patrol was fairly routine, after which she moved from Kilbotn to Skjomenfjord in November 1944. The boat's ninth patrol was much the...
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