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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.
In the 2018 video game Battlefield V, the Norwegian Campaign was featured in multiplayer, having 2 maps with one based on the Battle of Narvik and the other set in the mountain ranges of Norway, where the 2 factions fighting were the armed forces of the United Kingdom and the German Wehrmacht [125]
Rombaken or Ruoppat (Northern Sami) [1] (or unofficially: Rombaksfjord) is a fjord that branches off of the main Ofotfjorden in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The fjord is about 20 kilometres (12 mi) long and is surrounded by steep mountains, and the town of Narvik lies on the
Elvegårdsmoen is a military training camp site in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the inner end of Herjangsfjorden, on the southeast side of the village of Bjerkvik. The site was of some importance during the German invasion of Norway in April 1940 and the subsequent Norwegian Campaign.
On 10 April The First Battle of Narvik took place between five destroyers of the Royal Navy and the landing force of ten destroyers of the Kriegsmarine. Both parties lost two destroyers, but on 13 April a British attack by the battleship HMS Warspite and a flotilla of destroyers succeeded in sinking the remaining eight German destroyers, which ...
The Battle of Bjørnefjell occurred on 15 April 1940 as part of the Narvik Campaign during World War II. A Norwegian company which had escaped from the city of Narvik by traveling along the railway line during the German invasion of April 9 was defeated by superior German forces.
Obelisk Memorial for Egil Ullserk and his men who died at the Battle of Rastarkalv. Battle of Chippenham (878) Battle of Stamford (878) Battle of Corbridge (918) Battle of Brunanburh (937) Battle of Blodeheia (953) Battle of Rastarkalv (955) Battle of Fitjar (961) Battle of Hjörungavágr (ca. 985) Battle of Maldon (991) Battle of Svolder (1000 ...
The Narvik landing force evades British naval forces and defeats the Norwegian vessels in the fjord. 10: The First Battle of Narvik occurs when a British force of five destroyers enters the Ofotfjorden. The Germans have ten destroyers defending and both sides lose two ships, with the German force suffering greater damage beyond that to other ...