Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Above the Arctic Circle, continuous daylight last week illuminated the last efforts of a haggard, heroic band of Austrian ski troops to hold the one bit of dry land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
They quit the Arctic war zone after approving a Norwegian surrender ending the two-months old war in Norway. The official German news agency, D.N. B., announced that hostilities between the German and Norwegian armies in northern Norway ended at midnight Sunday, Berlin time...
...spoke tall, tired King Haakon VII of what was left of Norway last week, by proclamation to his captive people. He was somewhere above the Arctic Circle, in Harstad, Tromso or Hammerfest, far north of Narvik, where a British destroyer carried him last fortnight when he narrowly escaped from Molde at the mouth of bomb-battered Romsdal Fjord below Trondheim...
...Allies, meanwhile, admitted in official communiques that Nazi bombing planes have sunk three more destroyers off the Norwegian coast where Germany's air superiority has driven the British and French expeditionary forces to a new battlefront above the Arctic Circle. The ships belonged to England, France and Poland...
...Germans, according to our latest courier reports, scattered to the few farm houses of the region to escape from the severe Arctic cold and Norwegian snipers dropped them in their tracks whenever they emerged from shelter...