Word: karlskrona
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...three 7,000-ton vestpocket battleships carrying 11-inch Bofors guns, one combined cruiser and aircraft carrier, seven smaller coast-defense vessels, 16 destroyers, 16 submarines. Based at the old Hanseatic port of Visby on Gotland Island (whence come some of the world's finest roses), at Karlskrona across from Danzig and at Göteborg on the Kattegat, this Navy is now a close second to Germany's in the Baltic. Swedish coastal defenses at Göteborg, Kristianstad, Hälsingborg, Karlskrona and Stockholm could do an invader much damage and hold up his attack. Eventually...
...Allt ("In Spite of All") printed a list of members of alleged Nazi cells at the Stockholm naval base, Skeppsholmen. They call themselves the Brown Navy, charged Editor Nerman, "are ready to turn our defenses over to foreign powers." Editor Nerman claimed to have proof of similar cells at Karlskrona, Göteborg, Malmö, Gotland...