Battle of Danzig Bay

Battle of Danzig Bay
	Part of Invasion of Poland
	; Wreck of ORP Gryf
Date	1 September 1939
Location	Danzig Bay, Baltic Sea
Result	Strategic German victory Cancellation of Operation Rurka;
Belligerents
Germany	Poland
Commanders and leaders
Unknown	Stefan Kwiatkowski †; Viktor Lomidze
Strength
33 Junkers Ju 87B	7 minelayers; 2 gunboats; AA units at Hel Peninsula
Casualties and losses
7-10 aircraft destroyed or damaged	52 killed and wounded; 2 minelayers damaged
	Hel Peninsula class=notpageimage\| Location within Poland Hel Peninsula Hel Peninsula (Baltic Sea)

The Battle of Danzig Bay (Polish: bitwa w Zatoce Gdańskiej) took place on 1 September 1939, at the beginning of the invasion of Poland, when Polish Navy warships were attacked by German Luftwaffe aircraft in Gdańsk Bay (then Danzig Bay). It was the first naval-air battle of World War II.^[1]^[2]

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