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...hold the one bit of dry land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
...winter sports program at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His division of mountain troops, which he trained himself and led, as he did all things, with fierce personal daring through the Carpathians in last autumn's Polish campaign, was bottled up when British destroyers and the battleship Warspite blasted into Narvik on April 12. Steely and aquiline, Bull Dietl is said to have gone aloft in a warplane to call his friend Adolf Hitler in person by radio telephone. Hitler commanded his other generals in Norway: relieve Dietl at all costs...
...German relief column proceeding northward overland from Namsos last week was 118 miles southwest of Narvik at Bodo (pop. 6,000), which German air bombs completely incinerated. There a Norse force and a few British survivors still blocked the way. Allied warships said they sank seven German transports trying to bring Bull Dietl reinforcements...
...forces in Frances continued to sweep toward Paris and in the north it was reported reliably that the Allies abandoned the Narvik region of Norway to Germany. King Haakon and officials of the Norwegian government fled to England...
...sixth was still intact and in action around Narvik. Some 12,500 strong, based on Kirkenes (550 miles by sea northeast of Narvik), it was the best equipped, having been made ready for action during Finland's trouble last winter. Last fortnight Nazi air scouts flew even up to Kirkenes and dropped a few preliminary bombs, preparing to obey their Fiihrer's order to make his conquest of Norway complete...