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Laerdal. Boldest Allied penetration was at Laerdal at the head of deep Sogne Fjord, 90 miles northeast of German-held Bergen and 140 miles northwest of Oslo. This was the landing closest to Germany, also closest (130 miles) to Stavanger, Norway's biggest air base, now German...
...Fossum forts, southwest of Oslo, Norse garrisons fought bitterly. Elsewhere the Nazi juggernaut rolled comfortably from town to town, in its own lorries and commandeered busses. With the occupation of Sarpsborg and Halden it reached the lower Swedish border and threatened Sweden's flank behind her main southern defense zone...
...sponsor of the Allied expedition at Gallipoli 25 years ago-turned into a blood bath by poor planning-Mr. Churchill this time took no chances on lack of preparation, manpower, support. Germany's initial invading forces outside the Oslo area could not be more than 15,000 men, scattered from Narvik to Stavanger, of which perhaps one-third were based on Trondheim. Observers in London estimated the Allied Expeditionary Force's first wave as at least three divisions (30-45,000), exclusive of naval and marine personnel. All these were reported landed in the Trondheim area...
Namsos. The Germans' stronghold at Trondheim (Norway's capital when Olaf Tryggvasson was King, circa 996), commands mid-Norway's big railhead for transit across to Sweden and down to Oslo. Just east of it, at Varnes, lies mid-Norway's only big land air base. As the German invaders hustled to consolidate their position around Trondheim and establish a defense line across to the Swedish border, the Allies landed at Namsos, 100 miles north. The Namsos contingent soon made contact with Norwegian troops massing above Steinkjer, near Trondheim Fjord's head. These wiped...
...send a force north to attack Trondheim from the opposite side. But here there were also bigger stakes to play for. Presumably from these landings came the force that was reported to have cut its way across country to Hamar, there rallied the retiring Norse 65 miles outside Oslo...