Operation Juno

8 June 1940, Norwegian Sea, off Narvik

German success; a troopship, a tanker and a trawler sunk

Admiral Wilhelm Marschall sailed from Kiel with Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Admiral Hipper and four destroyers to attack the British base at Harstad and help the German troops cut off at Narvik. He did not know that the Allies were already leaving Norway. On 8 June 1940 the force found and sank the tanker Oil Pioneer and the anti-submarine trawler Juniper, and then the empty troopship Orama, sailing home on her own; Hans Lody finished off Orama and Oil Pioneer, and nearly 300 of Orama's people were taken prisoner. The hospital ship Atlantis was left alone. Marschall then sent Hipper and the destroyers into Trondheim to refuel and went on with the two battleships, which that afternoon found the carrier Glorious.