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The plan involved the placement of naval mines in Norwegian waters (Operation Wilfred) and was to be followed by the landing of troops at four Norwegian ports: Narvik, Trondheim, Bergen and Stavanger. It was hoped that the mining would trigger German agitation, thereby necessitating an immediate response from the Allies.
The Norwegian campaign (8 April – 10 June 1940) involved the attempt by Allied forces to defend northern Norway coupled with the resistance of the Norwegian military to the country's invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II.
Hebrides and Isle of Man bought from Norway for 4,000 marks to become part of Scotland; Norwegian sovereignty recognised over Orkney and Shetland; War of the Outlaws (1289–1295) Norway Danish outlaws Denmark: Victory. North Halland ceded to Kingdom of Norway; Second Swedish Brother's Feud (1304–1310) Norway (1304-1308) Duke Eric and ...
The Oxford companion to world war II (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995) Elting, John R. Battles for Scandinavia (Time-Life Books 1981) Haarr, Geirr. The Gathering Storm: Naval War in Northern Europe, September 1939 to April 1940 (2013) Haarr, Geirr. German Invasion of Norway: April 1940 (vol 1 2012); The Battle for Norway, April-June ...
This is a list of battles and sieges involving Norway. Pre-Unification Viking Age (793–872) ... World War II (1940–1945) Blücher sinking in the Oslofjord.
Since 1943 the Western Allies had been developing plans for the occupation of Norway, code-named Operation Apostle, after Germany's surrender. [2] Force 134, the occupation force, was composed of Norwegian troops who were stationed in Scotland, as well as a British contingent (initially the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division), a few American troops, [3] and some 12,000 Norwegian police troops ...
One of the leading sabotage organisations in Norway during most of World War II was the communist Osvald Group led by Asbjørn Sunde. [11] During the war years, the resistance movement in occupied Norway had 1,433 members killed, of whom 255 were women. [12]
The main German land campaign advanced northward from Oslo with superior equipment; Norwegian soldiers with turn-of-the-century weapons, along with some British and French troops, stopped the invaders for a time before yielding; this was the first land combat between the British Army and the Wehrmacht in World War II.