Arctic Hunters by Richard Taylor. ART507 Four more torpedoes struck home

Four more torpedoes struck home

The A-7 became the Navys prime weapon toward the end of the war

Image size 12 inches x 9

Private William Jones

F/Lt Way lost his life in the crash

Arctic Hunters by Richard Taylor. ART507 Four more torpedoes struck homeDHM1653. Arctic Hunters by Richard Taylor. Occupied by the Germans, by 1942 Norway had become vital to Hitlers war in the East. With the Russians threatening to over run Finland and attack Norway, the pilots of JG5 were tasked to support German ground forces, and to escort the incessant Luftwaffe attacks on Arctic Convoys from Britain to the vital Russian ports of Murmansk and Archangel. With such unpredictably harsh weather it was a life or death