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...days before the Nazi flag rose over Åndalsnes, when the Nazi power columns driving from the south made contact with their cut-off comrades near Trondheim, Adolf Hitler knew his Norwegian gamble was won. He addressed a special order-of-the-day to his "Soldiers of the Norwegian scene...
...time the Nazi flag went up at Åndalsnes last week, U. S. Army experts estimated 85,000 Germans had been put into action on Norwegian soil. By this week observers raised the figure to 150,000, despite a heavy toll from continued Allied attacks in the sea lanes off Sweden's west coast. Many more were expected in weeks to come, because Falkenhorst played for Norway for keeps. He got there first, now he must stay there last, since Germany needs Norway not only for military reasons, but for prestige and home morale...
...award of $50 went to Douglas C. Stenerson '42 of Kirkland House, for a paper entitled "Rolvaag, Immigrant." Stenerson, himself of Norwegian descent and a resident of Minnesota, discussed the life and novels of Rolvaag, who came to that state from the Land of the Fjords...
...Allies, meanwhile, admitted in official communiques that Nazi bombing planes have sunk three more destroyers off the Norwegian coast where Germany's air superiority has driven the British and French expeditionary forces to a new battlefront above the Arctic Circle. The ships belonged to England, France and Poland...
...Allied siege of the iron-ore port of Narvik appeared to have been stalled by snowstorms. The War Office said there was "nothing to report" from that Norwegian battlefront...