Word: domb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Push from Andalsnes. More important in the Allies' plan was the drive farther south. Troops landed on the quays of Molde and Andalsnes reached Dombås by train from the Andalsnes railhead. From Dåmbas junction they advanced in two directions. One force pressed north toward Storen to aid in besieging Trondheim from the south. Another contingent hurried southeast to brace the retreating Norse at Lillehammer (famed resort, home of Novelist Sigrid Undset) who faced the main German Army. In the Dovre Mountains around Dombås. German bombing planes, unopposed by Allied fighters or antiaircraft, again...
...Gudbrandsdal, after the main Nazi power-drive had plowed through Lillehammer, the Norse and British who escaped capture there fell back on Allied reinforcements for a stand where the valley narrows at Otta and Kvam, only 35 miles south of Dombås. Norwegian General Otto Ruge rallied his men with this message: "Now the time for withdrawing has passed," he said. "Stand by and keep together and we shall fight the battle to victory...
Overhead the northern war also accelerated. For six hours Nazis rained death on Namsos, which went up in flames. The stations at Åndalsnes and Dombäs (between Åndalsnes and Oslo) were fired, too. British air fleets retaliated with more raids on Stavanger, Kristiansand, and a new troop-ferry air terminal at Aalborg in Denmark. Apparently the northern war's turning point still hinged on dominance...
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