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...narrow mouth of Trondheim fjord bristles with German guns. The old ship-building wharf, extended for warships, has been blasted by British bombers. Half a mile outside Trondheim, transatlantic U-boats crouch in shelters dug out of hill sides which are as prone to slide as the hills of Panama. A few miles farther on is Asen fjord, where the really big ships hide: the mighty Tirpitz, the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, and the damaged heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper. According to Stockholm reports, the Germans are preparing a full-fledged naval base there, building a drydock big enough to take...
Under the towering, snow-swatched cliff in conquered Norway's Trondheim Fjord the Tirpitz lay, 35,000 tons or more of naval might. No R.A.F. bomb or torpedo had yet shaken...
Near her in the quiet fjord lay the crack 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen. She had been badly shaken. But Britain's airmen made no bet that the Eugen would not soon be ready for work again...
Once again Adolf Hitler was busy in Norway. All ports from the North Cape down to Alesund were tightly sealed. Across the Skagerrak, by ship and plane, streamed reinforcements for Nazi garrisons. Strung out along the thawing fjords were almost 200,000 troops, double the number that guarded Norway last fall. The powerful battleship Tirpitz, which recently weathered a British torpedo-plane attack, lay under the sheltering guns of Trondheim Fjord. With her were the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Were the Nazis about to move against Britain...
...this engagement: a U.S. warship patrolling Greenland waters to protect the huge Navy and Army air bases now nearing completion at Newfoundland, captured a 60-ton Norwegian steamer. Aboard was a crew of 20, including an agent of the German Gestapo. Their mission: to establish radio stations on the fjord-fissured, thousand-harbored Greenland Coast, keep Germany advised of the most vital of all information in the Battle of the Atlantic, the weather. One of the stations was found and destroyed, its three-man crew captured...