Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British and Norwegians were said to have isolated and surrounded large German units at three points around Narvik in a big drive that was unleashed suddenly late today while, 400 miles to the south along the ragged Norwegian coast, two British armies closed in upon Trondheim from the north and south...
Inland, in the midlands belt north of Oslo, British and Norwegian troops supported by Allied tanks appeared on the basis of unofficial reports to be pushing the Germans back in bitter fighting southwest of war-wrecked Hamar...
...Norwegian military spokesman said 1000 German soldiers were isolated in the town of Narvik itself, 1500 at Gratanger, 25 miles north of the port where the Nazis were lured into a trap, and nearly 100 on the hills of Rombak Fjord jutting inland from Narvik...
...Norwegian troops, in the craggy hills along the route, allowed the Germans to advance 25 miles to Gratangen and then struck across the highway at Oesevatten at the Germans' rear, cutting off their retreat...
...Norwegian spokesman, who said his information came from a courier who reached the Swedish border from the Narvik zone, said the Norwegians set fire to the hotel and all other large buildings in Gratangen, leaving the town ablaze...