Norway March 6, 1942 Losigkeit Group

(Photo from Svein Torske personnal flights :-)
Hi Franck,
I have now found the positions of all 3 photographs that you have on your web-site. They are all taken within a short period before the PRU-spit crash site is reached. ... Knoke may probably have started from Lade and not Værnes. This is confirmed in Nigel Smiths book : Tirpitz, The Halifax Raids, p.64 (Air Research Publications 1994). [As Wennekers wrote Trondheim in his flightbook you are probably right. NWM] So on my map I have indicated a route from Lade in Trondheim heading westwards towards the PRU-Spits crash site close to Bøverdal.
The blue angles on the map are approx. fields of view corresponding to a 50mm (standard) lens. Knocke may have used a wider angle, making my positions slightly unaccurate.
The picture 2 is taken right above a place called Fannrem in Orkdal. It shows Gjølme to starboard which is close to Orkanger. The lake in the centre is Fjellkjøsvatnet. They have climbed a little higher at this point, so we can see the mountains of Snillfjord over to the left.

I have "reconstructed" the flight in Microsoft flight simulator and I am sending pictures for comparison. ...This is not exact science, however as a rough indication it shows a good resemblance between flightsim. and Knoke's pictures. Flightsim do not provide sufficient snow and ice. The simulator was set to march 6th. 1942 :-)
I would really like to refly this trip in a real plane.

So here we leave Knocke and his comerades unless there are other pictures from his flight. It is quite strange compared to his description in his book, it is from here and further to south west you will find high spectacular mountains with peaks above 6000ft. Why did Knocke take his shots in the more "boring" scenery of Trøndelag and not the wild mountains of Sunnmøre. [Maybe because Knoke took pictures from the places he was hoping to remember about the pursuit of the Spitfire ? NWM] The route you have indicated on your site, would certainly take him over this area where he really would use his camera. Did he run out of film?? Or did he simply turn eastwards after having passed the Spitfires last position??
[As I didn't know if there's other pictures of this flight it's difficult to answer. Going back eastwards seem very improbable, but points southwards and you will go directly to Nesbyen and Sperillen ! NWM]

kind regards Svein