Word: raufoss
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...Raufoss Roh'-fuss
...Glomma River. Their chance of surviving by guerrilla warfare until the Allies came-shooting down on valley highways from ambushes along the hills-was endangered by a shortage of materiel. The Germans had captured the country's most important ammunition factory, at Kongsberg, arsenals at Nittedal and Raufoss, a powder factory, 1,000,000 rounds of rifle ammunition. This was bad news because Norway's Krag-Jorgsen rifles (6.5 mm.) will not shoot the 7.7-mm. bullet used by the Allies...
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