Operation Juno | |||||||
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Part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War | |||||||
Hans Lody rescuing survivors from the troop transport Orama | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Germany | United Kingdom | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wilhelm Marschall | Guy D'Oyly-Hughes † | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
2 battleships 1 heavy cruiser 4 destroyers |
1 aircraft carrier 2 destroyers 1 trawler 1 troopship 1 oil tanker | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
50 killed 1 battleship damaged |
1,519+ killed 1 aircraft carrier sunk 2 destroyers sunk 1 trawler sunk 1 troopship sunk 1 oil tanker sunk |
Operation Juno was a German sortie into the Norwegian Sea during the Norwegian Campaign, with the goal of helping the German Army to drive the Allied out of northern Norway and to recapture Narvik. The most notable engagement of the operation was the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sinking the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and its two escorting destroyers. Several Allied vessels were sunk in other engagements.
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