Word: oslo
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...Oslo and Bergen...
...holed up in a railway tunnel just six miles from the Swedish border and facing gradual annihilation by British planes and artillery, the promised help arrived suddenly and unexpectedly in the form of a major naval force including the 26,000-ton battleships Gneisenau (reported sunk in Oslo Fjord) and Scharnhorst (damaged in an exchange of shots with the Renown...
...surprise attack on Norway two months ago, Wedel sent one company of his PK men: 50 correspondents, 100 technicians. In charge went young Korvetten Kapitän Hahn. Aboard the German cruiser Blücher, when Norwegian shore batteries sent her down in the narrow waters of Oslo Fjord, Captain Hahn took the only films of a naval engagement shot thus far in World War II. Forced to swim, he got ashore with his pictures intact, but ran into a squad of Norwegian soldiers and destroyed the films to keep them from being captured...
...German Navy set up northern headquarters in Oslo and Grand Admiral Erich Raeder there visited Admiral Hermann Boehm, commander of the Nazis Norse naval district...
Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...