Word: beitstad
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Trondheim. The narrow, rutted roads were knee-deep in late-April slush. German bombers and attack ships roared low over the pinetops. From southeast of Steinkjer, smashing echoes rolled into the mountains from the guns of German destroyers and a pocket battleship (probably the Liitzow) bottled up in Beitstad Fjord, as the Germans moved them up to support their land forces...
...troops were hurt in the first landings, which were made at night. But in the wooded hills from Namsos to Steinkjer at the head of Beitstad Fjord, and from there along the shore road toward Levanger, where the Germans were supposed to be waiting, advance detachments of the N. W. E. F. soon found that fighting "Jerry" in Norway was no taffy-pull...
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