Author: Marcus Einarson Osen
The Naval Battles of Narvik 9th-10th and 13th of April 1940
Norsk Tidsskrift
2003
Format: PDF
Pages: 38
Language: English/Norwegian
Size: 16.4 MB
Throughout the winter of 1940 Norway's strategic importance became increasingly clear. One reason was our country's vast coastline, half of all Europe's, towards the Atlantic. The other; the greater part of Germany's iron core, on which her war economy depended absolutely, was mined in North Sweden and normally shipped from her Baltic ports; but when those ports froze it had to be sent through Narvik.
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