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On Wed. 10 Apr 1940 Fleet Air Arm Skua dive bombers sank the German cr.....

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Fleet Air Arm Skua dive bombers sank the German cruiser Königsberg in Bergen harbour in Norway. She was the first major warship to be sunk by dive bombing in the war

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