Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 5 ga Yuni, 1940, Kyaftin Rei Sandberg, kwamandan sansanin fursunonin Skorpa daga farkon watan Mayu, 1940, ya sami kira daga rundunar sojan gundumar da ke tambayar yawan matukan jirgin sama da aka tsare a sansanin. A wannan lokacin adadin ya kai 40, amma daga baya a wannan ranar wasu fursunoni 51 suka isa sansanin, 19 daga cikinsu 'yan jirgin sama ne. Saboda haka, lokacin da umurnin ya zo a cikin marigayi maraice don canja wurin 'yan jirgin sama 40 zuwa Harstad don yin tambayoyi a hedkwatar Birtaniya a Norway akwai 59 Luftwaffe ma'aikata a Skorpa. Kwamandan Yankin ya yanke shawarar cewa ya fi kyau a aika da fursunoni 40 da aka nema, maimakon a aika da duka 59. 40 da aka aiko daga Skorpa sune mafi girman matsayi na 59, gami da duk matukan jirgi. Babu wani daga cikin wadannan fursunoni da ya kai Harstad, maimakon haka an shiga cikin jiragen ruwa na Allied kuma aka kai su zuwa Birtaniya yayin da Allies suka kwashe Arewacin Norway
kwanaki bayan haka. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan tashiwar fursunonin Luftwaffe umarni ya zo ga sojojin kudancin Norwegian da ke tsaron sansanin don a tura su zuwa aikin gaba da Jamusawa. Kafin wani daga cikin sojojin ya iya barin Skorpa, duk da haka, labari ya isa sansanin a 0130hrs a ranar 8 ga Yuni na gabatowar mika wuya na babban yankin Norway.