Word: trondheim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appeasement-minded men, he cited the "lessons of Gallipoli, where we failed for lack of bold policy . . . defeated . . . by the pusillanimous Government torn by conflicting advice and fearful of responsibility." A month later he revealed that the War Cabinet had refused his demand that he attempt the capture of Trondheim, and he said baldly that such a capture would have been possible and might well have changed the entire course of Germany's Norwegian campaign...
Axel Gorm Andersen, who lives in Woodside, L. I., is five. Last spring, when the Nazis invaded Norway, little Axel found himself in Trondheim, 4,000 miles from home. Mrs. Andersen had taken Axel to show him to his great-aunt and left him there for a visit, never dreaming that the Nazi war machine would sweep that far north...
Striking at Nazi troop and supply movements, the R. A. F. swooped over the German-held French port of Lorient, shattering two transports and killing 3,000 Nazi soldiers. Off Trondheim, Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command fired a German supply ship, set two more ablaze in the North...
...withdrew to save their relatives at home from punishment. If the ships were only kept out of Axis hands, even though not used by Britain, a slim balance of sea power would still remain with Britain, especially since the Royal Navy claimed to have again damaged the Scharnhorst at Trondheim. Stories conflicted about what ships the Germans had been able, to seize at Brest and St. Nazaire...
...Trondheim...