Word: railhead
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Below, bridges repaired, the infantry brigade comes up, artillery and wire are placed on the far hill to hold the flank, a railhead is established, the airfield reconstructed, and the tanks have moved on to their next objective...
Push from Andalsnes. More important in the Allies' plan was the drive farther south. Troops landed on the quays of Molde and Andalsnes reached Dombås by train from the Andalsnes railhead. From Dåmbas junction they advanced in two directions. One force pressed north toward Storen to aid in besieging Trondheim from the south. Another contingent hurried southeast to brace the retreating Norse at Lillehammer (famed resort, home of Novelist Sigrid Undset) who faced the main German Army. In the Dovre Mountains around Dombås. German bombing planes, unopposed by Allied fighters or antiaircraft, again...
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...
...North it was a different story. Not only was Narvik soon out of German control - and the road to the vital nearby Swedish ore fields - but the railhead at Namsos on a fjord 55 miles north of Trondheim was not held. From it runs a rail spur down to Hell, near middle Norway's only landing field of military size...
...mile rail connection which Finland must build this year, from the railhead at Kuolajärvi eastward to a link which Russia will build westward from Kandalakska. Russia will have free transit over this line to its juncture with the Swedish rail-road at Tornio, hard by the Swedish iron mines and fort at Boden. To narrow the "waist" of Finland thus traversed (something else Russia's fighting columns failed to do), Russia takes a slice off Finland north and south of Kuolajärvi, instead of ceding a big slice of Russia further down the line...