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...entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord, at Elvegardsmoen. They bombed Allied warships which prowled off the town to shell the heights, and added mines to the battle wreckage in Narvik harbor which prevented those ships from closing in. They even managed to land and take off on one glacier-like mountaintop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Siege of Narvik | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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