Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Laerdal. Boldest Allied penetration was at Laerdal at the head of deep Sogne Fjord, 90 miles northeast of German-held Bergen and 140 miles northwest of Oslo. This was the landing closest to Germany, also closest (130 miles) to Stavanger, Norway's biggest air base, now German...
...West the Germans did not even originally have easy going. Norse resistance around Bergen was stiff. This week the Allies began to land in force. When British troops were reported advancing as far south and as far inland as Hamar to turn back the German juggernaut, the campaign, largely out of Norwegian hands, entered its next phase...
...narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling, the No. 1 Nazi Fifth Columnist at Oslo, got the invaders past the harbor guards at Bergen...
weekday radio entertainers (just behind Sunday top-liners Jack Benny and Edgar Bergen) are an old time, tank-town vaudeville couple from Peoria, who 15 years ago were considered washed up-Jim and Marion Jordan. By radio alias they are Fibber McGee and Molly of 79 Wistful Vista. This week they celebrate Fibber & Co.'s fifth season on the air for Johnson's Glo-Coat floor wax.* Last week they made their debut in the dramatic bigtime, playing Mama Loves Papa (a Charles Ruggles-Mary Boland movie story) on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre. They...
...radio. To Mormacstar and Mormactide, far out in the Atlantic, Scandinavia-bound, went orders to [ turn about, keep steerage way with their bows pointed west, pending further orders. Few hours later the orders went out: head for home. Later, to the freighters Mormacsea at Trondheim and Flying Fish at Bergen, caught in the middle of the shooting, went welcome news; the U. S. State Department had notified belligerents it expected U. S. ships to get safe passage out of the newest segment of the President's combat zone. This week anxious Moore-McCormack heard that Mormacsea had shoved...