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Once again Adolf Hitler was busy in Norway. All ports from the North Cape down to Alesund were tightly sealed. Across the Skagerrak, by ship and plane, streamed reinforcements for Nazi garrisons. Strung out along the thawing fjords were almost 200,000 troops, double the number that guarded Norway last fall. The powerful battleship Tirpitz, which recently weathered a British torpedo-plane attack, lay under the sheltering guns of Trondheim Fjord. With her were the 10,000-ton pocket battleship Admiral Scheer, the 10,000-ton heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Were the Nazis about to move against Britain...
...large auditorium in the St. Paul Science Museum. Twelve globe sections, seven and a half feet in diameter, are ranged around the auditorium walls, show phases of American naval strategy and problems, the major strategic bottlenecks of the world (Windward Passage, Panama, Gibraltar, Suez, Malay Straits, English Channel, Skagerrak, Kattegat). A huge revolving globe (Dr. Powell believes most people get wrong ideas of distance from looking at flat maps) shows the principal trade routes of the world. In the center of the auditorium, spread out on a huge table, are model ships in the standard dia grammatic layout...
...clock that morning, R.A.F. reconnaissance found the ship lying motionless off Mandal, the southernmost point of Norway. Shepherded by her destroyers, she soon limped away at greatly reduced speed into the safety of the Skagerrak, probably so strongly protected by German land-based fighters that the British bombers-too far from home to bring a fighter escort-did not dare strike again. However, one pocket battleship would not raid for some time to come...
...Skagerrak and Kattegat, when Norse resistance stiffened and the "Minute Men of Elverum" covered their Government's flight, more & more German men and arms were already pouring northward by sea as well as by air from Germany and from new Nazi bases in Denmark, grimly taking losses as they had to, but still coming on. Unlike the Allies' relief expedition, Falkenhorst's invasion was geared to smite and smite again...
...Norway on April 8, the first British naval forces did not land at Namsos until April 14 and the first British troops arrived at Åndalsnes only on April 17; 4) that the British Navy had not succeeded in interrupting a steady stream of German reinforcements across the Skagerrak, but the Nazi Air Force had prevented the Allies from landing tanks or artillery in South Norway; 5) that the Allied troops had executed a "successful retirement...