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Part 7
17th October

Aircraft from KG 30 attack Scapa flow. The depot ship iron duke, two salvage ships trying to raise U-47 and the aircraft carrier Courageous along with the cruiser Edinburgh and the destroyers Fortuna and Forrester.

Hurricanes from the airfield near kirkwall are launched to intercept the five ju-88 bombers, the hurricanes lead by lieutenant Eric Brown. LT Brown manages to get in close to the JU-88s and shoots one down one. The others manage to line up their bombing runs on the aircraft carrier Courageous.

Two other hurricanes manage to damage and disrupt the JU-88S bombing runs. One manages to drop there bombs towards Courageous. One bomb hits courageous and others miss. The bombers now lighter dive for the deck and try to escape.

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