Word: fjord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...ability to aim was proved by gaping holes in the little (800 ft.) town quay, where some 15,000 British and French troops had landed from small boats, from big transports (including the 21,833-ton Empress of Australia, see p. 25) that had to anchor out in the fjord...
...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...
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...
...only big land air base. As the German invaders hustled to consolidate their position around Trondheim and establish a defense line across to the Swedish border, the Allies landed at Namsos, 100 miles north. The Namsos contingent soon made contact with Norwegian troops massing above Steinkjer, near Trondheim Fjord's head. These wiped out a "suicide" force of Germans landed by plane on the nearby...