Word: dietl
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...made only Inspecting General of Forces for Training, while to replace Sir Alan as field commander in the south of England, Lieut. General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, 56, was named. The latter was the hard-bitten infantryman who helped wrestle Narvik from Germany's Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl only to see it yielded due to pressure in the Lowlands...
...came with a surprise and a smash. To the hard-fighting Nazi forces commanded by his good friend Lieut. General Eduard ("Bull") Dietl, Adolf Hitler had promised aid. With the "Bul" and his men holed up in a railway tunnel just six miles from the Swedish border and facing gradual annihilation by British planes and artillery, the promised help arrived suddenly and unexpectedly in the form of a major naval force including the 26,000-ton battleships Gneisenau (reported sunk in Oslo Fjord) and Scharnhorst (damaged in an exchange of shots with the Renown...
...proceeding northward overland from Namsos last week was 118 miles southwest of Narvik at Bodo (pop. 6,000), which German air bombs completely incinerated. There a Norse force and a few British survivors still blocked the way. Allied warships said they sank seven German transports trying to bring Bull Dietl reinforcements...
...General Fleischer of the Norse 6th Division superintended a 24-hour assault, begun at bright midnight. British warships' fire and French artillery covered landings by French Alpine troops across the north fjord to one side of the promontory. Polish troops pushed in from the other side. Bull Dietl and his few hundred remaining men retreated, but Norse troops blocked their escape from the promontory into Sweden...
Some of his men had surrendered, some had mutinied and crept into Sweden, but Bull Dietl was believed still alive at week's end. He fought on to keep for Germany, besides access to iron ore, an important source of strategic information. From observations made in the Narvik area, Nazi meteorologists make long-range forecasts of western Europe's weather, determined by south-flowing air masses over the Gulf Stream...