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...From Oslo over...
...From Oslo he sent me a fur-lined hood...
...their homes Norwegians heard of the Propaganda Minister's death from the German-controlled Oslo radio. Their grim jest: the ferryboat skipper had "made those dives to be sure the car doors were locked...
Bombers broke cloud over the Skagerrak and came in 100 feet above Oslo in the brilliant sunshine. R.A.F. bombardiers sighted the University building where, two years to a day after he became head of Norway's Nazis, Premier Vidkun Quisling was haranguing a Nasjonal Samling (Nazi) Party rally on "The New Order in Norway," pleading for an army of 5,000 Norwegians to fight with the Germans on the eastern front...
Northern Europe? British bombers over Oslo (see p. 28), were enough to prove again that Norway was a powder keg under the occupying Nazis, awaiting only the Allied match. A factor in Allied calculations, well known to the Germans, was the U.S. P-38, a fighter plane able to fly from Iceland or Britain to a landing point in Norway, thus enormously extending the feasible area of invasion...