| Operation Judgement | |||||||
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| Part of Second World War | |||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Operation_Judgement_1945.jpg) Operation Judgement. The main targets of the attack, the depot ship Black Watch and U-711 are hidden behind water columns and smoke | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United Kingdom |
 Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
 Rhoderick McGrigor |
 Hans-Günther Lange | ||||||
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3 Fleet Air Arm Squadrons: 44 aircraft from 3 Escort carriers | Various anti aircraft defences, shipping, U-boats | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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2 aircraft 4 killed |
1 U-boat sunk 2 ships sunk 150 killed or wounded | ||||||
&sq=Facebook&lang=en&file=File:Norway_location_map.svg)  Harstad Harstad, Norway | |||||||
Operation Judgement was an operation carried out at the end of the Second World War by the Home Fleet of the British Royal Navy in Northern Norway on 4 May 1945. A force of 44 Fleet Air Arm aircraft attacked a U-boat base 5 mi (8.0 km) south of the town and port of Harstad. The attack was directed at vessels in the natural harbour at Kilbotn. It lasted seven minutes and left two ships and a U-boat sunk. No Norwegians in the village of Kilbotn were killed or injured during or after the attack. Operation Judgement was the last air raid of the war in Europe.