Awesome...thank you for that, Erich, I will chase that up.....
Oddly enough, Turakina is a little township about 15 km from my hometown, and I've read mention many times on the Rangitane, used as a troop/merchant ship from down here....
I take it that that's a Kreigsmarine badge you've posted....they were right-into the 'Viking' thing, eh?.....I have Gerald Reitlinger's ''The SS - Alibi of a nation 1922-1945'', which details particuarly Himmler's facsination with the Norse Legends and Aryan beliefs, which came through in alot of German badges and motifs/logos....Many folk are quite taken with them and one can see what a draw-card they must have been in the early days of the Reich, to help foster the patriotism of the people........
There is a way to get a picture of ''8 Ju-88's attacking a Sunderland''....this is the work that's done by Aviation Artists.........
- Robert Taylor's ''Caught on the Surface'' painting is probably the best action Sunderland one I've seen, which was specially commissioned to aid the preservation of Sunderland U-461 [the sub in the painting] artefacts, which reside now in the Australian War Memorial, in Canberra. It's a very accurate painting of an action in July 1943 when Sunderland 'U' of 461 Sqn. caught 3 U-boats on the surface in the Bay of Biscay, sinking one from just 50 ft, using it to sheild itself from the fire of the two other U-boats......it's hailed as the ''greatest Air/U-boat battle of WWII'', but perhaps ''8 attacking Ju-88's'' must also fit in there somewhere too....It requires alot of research and crew-survivors memories to put paintings like such together, usually......I think you can view Robert Taylor's painting at
www.aviationart.com.au ...........