Word: audet
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...French Alpine troops at Namsos embarked first, under General Sylvestre Gérard Audet, who was wounded in the head by bomb splinters. Then went the British, throwing their arms and stores away, their retreat "covered" by Norwegians, whose Colonel Ole Getz complained bitterly, and surrendered to the Germans, when he found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped...