Air raid on the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo (1942)
The air raid on the Gestapo headquarters Oslo (1942) was on 25 September 1942 with four De Havilland Mosquito DH.98 the Royal Air Force (RAF) to the Gestapo headquarters in Oslo flown at the building complex Victoria Terrace was. One machine was shot down. Four bombs hit the target, one of which did not go off and the other three penetrated the house and destroyed neighboring buildings. 80 civilians were wounded or killed. The Norwegian government- in- exile in London complained to the British government.
From the British side, the attack was rated as a success, as it disrupted a march of Quisling supporters and provided moral support for the Norwegian resistance. The experiences made flowed into later precision attacks.
literature
- Leslie Kark: Strange Assignments . Published in Martin Bowmann: Daylight Bombing Operations 1939–1942 . Pen & Sword Books 2014, ISBN 978-1-78383-177-7
- Hans Fredrik Dahl: Quisling: A Study in Treachery . New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-521-49697-7 .
See also
- Air raid on the Aarhus Gestapo headquarters
- Air raid on the Copenhagen Gestapo headquarters
- Air raid on Gestapo headquarters in Oslo (1944)
Web links
- IWM interview with the pilot George Parry (engl.)
- IWM interview with the pilot Bernard Marshall (engl.)
- RAF bomb Gestapo HQ in Oslo on World War II Today
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Fredrik Dahl: Quisling: A Study in Treachery . P. 277