Operation Orator
Operation Orator was the code name for the defence of the Allied Arctic convoy PQ 18 by British and Australian air force units based temporarily in North-West Russia, against attack by the German battleship Tirpitz and other Kriegsmarine surface vessels. The wing, known as the Search & Strike Force, was commanded by Group Captain Frank Hopps and its maritime strike element was the Leuchars Wing, comprising No. 144 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF) and No. 455 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) equipped with Handley-Page Hampden TB 1 torpedo bombers.
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Operation Orator
Operation Orator was the code name for the defence of the Allied Arctic convoy PQ 18 by British and Australian air force units based temporarily in North-West Russia, against attack by the German battleship Tirpitz and other Kriegsmarine surface vessels. The wing, known as the Search & Strike Force, was commanded by Group Captain Frank Hopps and its maritime strike element was the Leuchars Wing, comprising No. 144 Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF) and No. 455 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) equipped with Handley-Page Hampden TB 1 torpedo bombers.
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Operation Orator was the code ...... personnel returned to Britain.
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(en route to USSR)
2 PRU Spitfires
Air crew killed:
Aircraft: 9 torpedo bombers
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Allied victory
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1 battleship ()
3 cruisers (,,)
32 long-range torpedo bombers
35–60 fighters (II./JG 5 and III./JG 5)
4 destroyers
5 long-range reconnaissance aircraft
8 long-range maritime patrol aircraft
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A Hampden TB.1 of the Leuchars ...... during the Second World War.
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F. L. (Frank) Hopps
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Rolf Carls
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Operation Orator
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September 1942
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Arctic naval operations of the Second World War
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Allied victory
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RAAF–RAF
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Search & Strike Force
* Leucha ...... 210 Squadron RAF
** 1 PRU RAF
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Operation Orator was the code ...... Hampden TB 1 torpedo bombers.
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Operation Orator
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