Word: northwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present did not at once follow-up their advantage. The German forces ashore, numbering some 2,500, returned to the town, retained their hold on the iron-ore railroad as far as the Swedish border. Reinforced with mountain artillery flown in, they even began spreading up & down the coast. Northward they encountered British land forces 15 miles away, at Gratangen. These troops were from the main Allied landing point at Harstad, on an island at the head of Vest Fjord. Meantime, this week British warships returned to Narvik and, after due warning, started blasting the Germans out of it once...
...other Nazi force driving northward up the Oester Valley nearer the Swedish border, appeared to be encountering fierce and stubborn opposition from reinforced British and Norwegian forces...
...Germans were said to have been quick to respond to the encirclement and to have moved rapidly northward along the road to Tromsoe...
...King Christian's younger brother's capital, 300 miles northward, the Nazis' arrival in Oslo streets was also taken calmly by the populace. But this populace was puzzled, incredulous, as 1,500 shock-troopers, hard-looking but amiable enough, only a few of them gripping their automatic weapons, took possession of a city of 250,000 with scarcely a finger raised against them, even with a city police escort. Correspondent Leland Stowe of the Chicago Daily News was the first outsider on the spot to figure out one of the darkest inside jobs ever perpetrated...
...newspaperman, Erik Seidenfaden, 30-year-old editor on Copenhagen's rich, conservative Politiken, son of a Copenhagen police commissioner, took off from a Danish airport in a chartered plane and turned his nose northward over the grey waters of the Kattegat toward Norway. Reporter Seidenfaden, like many another Dane, was curious about a long line of Nazi warships, mine sweepers, transports which had been steaming slowly through the Great Belt...