Word: hamar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flight of Haakon. But King Haakon, his Ministers, his Parliament and diplomatic corps, were elusive. After their train had been halted two hours at Kjeller while German planes bombed the nearby airport, they reached the little provincial town of Hamar. Hotels were requisitioned, Government officials in ski clothes sloshed about unpacking crates of documents left in the slushy streets, Parliament convened in the theatre, King and Council met in the theatre's restaurant. The King was dressed in a field uniform, but General Laake, Commander of the Norse Army, had on a black overcoat and derby. He had been...
Wednesday, Elverum became Norway's Lexington (Mass.). When the German flying wedge that had scared the Government out of Hamar rolled up to Elverum, their busses were stopped by a barricade of overturned autos...