Word: svolvoer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, far to the north, the British did it again-this time, on a slightly bigger scale. In foggy weather naval units attacked the port of Svolvoer, in the Lofoten Islands, off Narvik, Norway, and then withdrew. "No military importance whatever," the Germans said; "a propaganda maneuver ... a mere bagatelle ... a typical Don Quixote stroke, which could only be carried out by a country sunk as low as England...
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