Daily eBay scan - San-Ju travelling through Norway

Another interesting batch of photographs are currently at offer to the highest bidder, a series of photographs showing glimpses from the travels of a Ju 52 from a medical unit through Norway ending up in a snowy Alakurtti in Finnland.

Showing airfield buildings and even what must be a very rare bird in Norway at this time, namely a camouflaged DC-2 these are small historical gems.

Please comment my annotations, as I am unsure of the location of some of these.

Stop over at the airfield at Trondheim - Værnes?

Is this photograph taken in a Finnish airfield? The tower on the corner of a large hangar in a snow covered field give that association.

Note the camouflaged nose of a DC-2 in this photograph taken in Helsinki as far as I can determine from the building in the background

At the airfield at Alakurtti

Daily eBay scan - Caproni Ca 310 ´507´ at Stavanger-Sola

As part of a larger collection of Fallschirmjäger photographs obviously sourced from an album, the seller 100-years-of-history has a couple of really crisp photographs of the Caproni Ca 310 with callsign ´507´. Having seen a lot of Caproni photographs through the years there is really nothing new here, but the quality of the prints looks to be very good indeed as a basis for detailed research.

Caproni Ca 310 callsign ´507´ as found by the invading German forces at Sola-Stavanger on April 9th 1940

A selected group of flying personnel and paratroopers posing in front of Caproni Ca 310 callsign ´507´ at Sola-Stavanger on April 9th 1940

The rest of the photographs in the selection give an interesting view of the preparations and inflight photographs of the Ju 52 transporters bringing the Fallschirmjäger towards Norway and Denmark on April 9th 1940.

Paratroopers preparing for the invasion. Nothing very military about the suitcase they seem to be packing.

Inflight photograph of Ju 52´s en route to Norway and/or Denmark