Word: ores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remaining Nazi warships to the bottom and silenced all German firing from the shore last fortnight, the British marines and sailors 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...
...Allies succeed in pushing back the German Army in Norway and disrupting its communications across the Skagerrak, Germany will have urgent military need to send supplies and support through Sweden. Conversely, the Allies, if they succeed in taking Narvik, might be tempted to seize the Swedish iron-ore mines at Kiruna and Gällivare. Sweden did not think this likely but fear of it might give Germany another motive for invasion...
...probable," stated Professor Cross, "that the Germans will extend their operations to Sweden very shortly. This action should aid, rather than hamper, the democracies, however, since they will be able to campaign in Scandinavia with total disregard of political frontiers and the British chances of cutting off all ore shipments to Germany from the Kiruna field will be measurably improved...
STOCKHOLM--British and Norwegian troops have surrounded 3500 Germans in a "final assault" on the iron ore port of Narvik, a Norwegian spokesman claimed tonight, and the jaws of another trap were reported closing on German-held Trondheim...
Salemites strolling past the corner of State & Commercial Streets one day last week stared sorrowfully at cardboard placards in the arched windows of the old Salem, Ore. firm of Ladd & Bush, Bankers...