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...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...
Narvik lies at the western forefoot of a mountainous promontory between two fjords. Last week a French general and 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...
...surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...
Their plan was, with the Norse troops working on lower levels, to complete a ring around Narvik, then press westward until they drove the Nazis down from the heights to the fjord, where the warships could polish them...