Before Mike Crossley's squadron embarked, Implacable's Seafires and Fireflies raided near the Norwegian coast. His memoir credits the operation with a U-boat sinking. A Firefly was shot down during the raid. The aircraft was later excavated and placed in a Norwegian museum.
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Implacable's Norwegian raid and a recovered Firefly
The carrier's Norwegian operations combined a reported U-boat sinking with the loss of a Firefly later recovered for a museum.