Junker JU52 3M
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Luftwaffe's
workhorse Junker 52 served on all fronts in Second World
War. Among the most known operations are probably General
Students attack on Crete in 1941 and Herman Göring`s
futile attempts to help the surrounded German 6. Army in
Stalingrad. Also during the invasion of Norway in April
1940, quite many JU 52`s took part. Among the more known
missions in Norway, were the assaults on Fornebu and Sola
airports, and in the battles around Narvik. At the bottom
of Hartvigvannet some 35 kilometers outside Narvik, lies
the wreck of a JU 52 who landed there during the battle of
Narvik in 1940. A total of eleven JU 52's landed on
Hartvigvannet, and most of them went down in the deep.
Most of the airplanes were raised during the war and in
the 1980's. The wreck rest today on a depth of approx 5 to
10 meter exactly to the right for the river which runs
down from the mountains.
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| 68° 33' 16" N, 17° 42' 8" E  Picture:
Junker JU52
Wikipedia,
Public domain
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