Word: steinkjer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Stab at Trondheim. The narrow, rutted roads were knee-deep in late-April slush. German bombers and attack ships roared low over the pinetops. From southeast of Steinkjer, smashing echoes rolled into the mountains from the guns of German destroyers and a pocket battleship (probably the Liitzow) bottled up in Beitstad Fjord, as the Germans moved them up to support their land forces...
...troops were hurt in the first landings, which were made at night. But in the wooded hills from Namsos to Steinkjer at the head of Beitstad Fjord, and from there along the shore road toward Levanger, where the Germans were supposed to be waiting, advance detachments of the N. W. E. F. soon found that fighting "Jerry" in Norway was no taffy-pull...
...bombing planes were specially deadly because the Allied advance force had no artillery, no anti-aircraft batteries, no air support, no anti-tank guns. They did not even have white capes for snow-fighting. They were shocked, and shot up, when they met the Germans only three miles below Steinkjer, at Vist. For most of the British boys it was their first fighting, after only one year of training. They soon lost half their men-dead, wounded or captured-and survivors were lucky to retire north of Steinkjer after the Germans had landed reinforcements in their rear from warships...
Correspondent Stowe quoted officers & men of the decimated British advance party at Steinkjer as saying to him: "For God's sake, tell them we have got to have airplanes and anti-aircraft guns. . . . It's a bloody mess. They've let us down in London." He quoted a Norse captain as saying, after Norwegians covered the shattered Britons' retreat: "It looks as if the British were going to fight to the last Norwegian...
...Steinkjer Stain...