Word: trondheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood bath by poor planning-Mr. Churchill this time took no chances on lack of preparation, manpower, support. Germany's initial invading forces outside the Oslo area could not be more than 15,000 men, scattered from Narvik to Stavanger, of which perhaps one-third were based on Trondheim. Observers in London estimated the Allied Expeditionary Force's first wave as at least three divisions (30-45,000), exclusive of naval and marine personnel. All these were reported landed in the Trondheim area. But if it was true that the Allies had 100,000 men ready to start...
STOCKHOLM, Saturday, April 27--French Foreign Legion troops from Africa were reported in frontier dispatches early today to have driven the Germans back "with heavy losses" to the north of Trondheim while Allied troops and planes battled Nazi motorized columns south of the strategic Norwegian seaport...
...Norwegian High Command claimed that one of the Germans' two pounding drives up through central Norway--the one up the Gudbrands Valley to a point about 120 miles directly south of Trondheim--had been halted 35 miles south of Dombaas, communications hub and a key to Trondheim...
STOCKHOLM--British and Norwegian troops have surrounded 3500 Germans in a "final assault" on the iron ore port of Narvik, a Norwegian spokesman claimed tonight, and the jaws of another trap were reported closing on German-held Trondheim...
...British and Norwegians were said to have isolated and surrounded large German units at three points around Narvik in a big drive that was unleashed suddenly late today while, 400 miles to the south along the ragged Norwegian coast, two British armies closed in upon Trondheim from the north and south...