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The Battle of Narvik saw Norway's toughest fight in World War II; nearly 7,500 Norwegian soldiers participated in the battle, along with British, French and Polish troops. The reconquest of Narvik was the first time the forces of the Third Reich were removed from a captured city.
The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940, as a naval battle in Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian town of Narvik, as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War.
5: Using assistance to Finland as rationale, the Allied Supreme War Council decides on intervention in Norway. Initial plans are for a landing at Narvik, and success would rely on the acquiescence of Norway and Sweden. It is clear that despite the stated rationale, cutting supplies of iron ore to Germany is a prime motivation for the plan.
The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
13 World War II (1940–1945) 14 ... View history; General ... This is a list of battles and sieges involving Norway. Pre-Unification Viking Age (793–872)
Orders of Battle, Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield: Naval & Military Press. ISBN 1843424746. Ladd, James (1978). Commandos and Rangers of World War II. London: Macdonald and Jane's. ISBN 0356084329. Ladd, James (1983). SBS, the Invisible Raiders: the History of the Special Boat Squadron from World War Two to the Present. London: Arms and ...
Orders of Battle: Second World War, 1939–1945. Uckfield, East Sussex: Naval and Military Press. ISBN 978-1-84342-474-1. Brigadier N. W. Routledge, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-Aircraft Artillery, 1914-55, Brasseys: London, United Kingdom, 1994. ISBN 1-85753-099-3.
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