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...hope of winning in a concentrated battle between capital ships. His plan was so far as possible to avoid battle at sea, to divide his fleet into a number of small squadrons and scatter them as protection for numerous parties at strategic points along 1,200 miles of Norwegian seacoast...
Monday morning the British destroyer Glowworm was proceeding with her flotilla to lay mines off the Norwegian coast when she lost a man overboard. Delayed in picking him up, the Glowworm was hurrying to overtake her companions when, northwest of Trondheim, she sighted a strange destroyer. "What ship is that?" she blinked in English. The answer was gunfire. After announcing that she had engaged an enemy destroyer, the Glowworm never reported to the Admiralty again. Several days later German sources told how the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper had come down and sunk her during the battle - she had stumbled upon...
Treachery ashore disarmed the Norwegian ships and coast gun crews at Norway's naval base of Horten, across Oslo Fjord from Moss. But the Norse mine layer Olav Tryggvason put in there unexpectedly for repairs Monday evening, unbeknownst to the plotters. When, before dawn, she beheld German warboats coming in unchallenged, she promptly torpedoed the cruiser Emden and a submarine. One coast gun crew in the narrows above Horten remained loyal long enough to sink the Blucher, but a minefield in the narrows was rendered harmless by Nor way's betrayers, just as a message from Vidkun Quisling...
Phase Five: Extermination. Three days after Hero Warburton-Lee's raid, the battleship Warspite arrived off Narvik accompanied by the remains of the H-class destroyers, plus the heavier (1,870 ton) "Tribal" destroyer flotilla including the famed Cossack (which raided the prison ship Altmark in Norwegian waters in February). This heavy force plowed up the fjord, silenced the Nazis' shore guns, sank seven destroyers, stood by to watch Norwegian shore forces clean out the landing party of 5,000 Nazis...
Treachery. In Berlin on the night of Friday, April 5, was Major Vidkun Quisling, 53, onetime (1931-33) Norwegian Minister of Defense, leader of the Nazi Party in Oslo which long ago withered at the polls but still had roots, nourished by big money, throughout Norway's Army and Navy. How alive those roots were, and how far spreading, Adolf Hitler & Co. well knew when they sent their warships into heavily fortified Oslo Fjord on the night of April 8, followed by long convoys of transports. With few exceptions, the Norse forts and naval units did not fire...