AA36901 -- Junkers JU52/3mg5e (floatplane) - P5+JD, Luftwaffe, Operation Weserubung, Norway 1940

An hour before midnight April 8, 1940, the Norwegian security vessel "Pol III" was on a patrol in the Oslo fjord, when it discovered unidentified ships in the horizon. A few minutes later it was rammed and shot at by a German torpedo boat.

The invasion of Norway had started. The Luftwaffe would, by the end of the invasion, have participated with 1082 aircrafts. By the end of April 9, there would be about 16,000 German soldiers on Norwegian soil. Operation Weserubung was to be the first major combined operation where the army, navy and air force was joined together. At the beginning of the Norwegian operation 571 Ju 52/3m transports were available in addition to other types such as this floatplane, being used in the Luftwaffe's first major airborne operation.