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Power Drives. Meantime, from Rena up the Ősterdal (Glomma River Valley) and from Lillehammer up the Gudbrandsdal (Lågen River Valley), the Germans launched two mechanized columns which again showed the world, as in Poland, how a modern juggernaut can open the road to war. These spearheads, to be followed by heavier forces from the growing Nazi troop-pool in the Oslo district, drove to reach their comrades at Trondheim before the floundering Allies should surround that town and close the roads to reinforcements. One struck north to the copper town of Röros at a speed...
...week's end the Norse were backed up to the north end of Lake Mjösa, and almost to Rena on the Glomma River. Their chance of surviving by guerrilla warfare until the Allies came-shooting down on valley highways from ambushes along the hills-was endangered by a shortage of materiel. The Germans had captured the country's most important ammunition factory, at Kongsberg, arsenals at Nittedal and Raufoss, a powder factory, 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition. This was bad news because Norway's Krag-Jorgsen rifles (6.5 mm.) will not shoot...
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