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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...
Namsos. The Germans' stronghold at Trondheim (Norway's capital when Olaf Tryggvasson was King, circa 996), commands mid-Norway's big railhead for transit across to Sweden and down to Oslo. Just east of it, at Varnes, lies mid-Norway's only big land air base. As the German invaders hustled to consolidate their position around Trondheim and establish a defense line across to the Swedish border, the Allies landed at Namsos, 100 miles north. The Namsos contingent soon made contact with Norwegian troops massing above Steinkjer, near Trondheim Fjord's head. These wiped...
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...
...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...