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...Fear We Need Not Yield." On Feb. 1, 1942, after two years in the background, Vidkun Quisling was reinstated as puppet dictator of Norway in a gaudy Wagnerian ceremony in Oslo's Akershus Castle. The people of Oslo stayed away from the ceremony. But in Trondheim Norwegians by the thousand gathered outside Nidaros Cathedral. Inside, preaching to a handful of quislingites, a puppet pastor was shouting the praises of his leader. The people in the street were waiting to hear Dean Arne Fjellbu. At 2 p.m., the hour scheduled for Fjellbu's afternoon service, police appeared with clubs...
...away from Brest, the 2nd and 10th from Lorient, the 6th and 7th from St. Nazaire. But where could he send them? The only other Biscay bases were La Pallice and Bordeaux, each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed at Gibraltar...
...Boat Bases: Eight of eleven operational bases attacked. Brest (very light), Lorient (considerable), St. Nazaire (very heavy), La Pallice (severe), Trondheim (most severe), Helgoland (very light), Bordeaux (very light permanent damage), Gdynia (negligible material damage, considerable morale destruction by shattering sense of security). Concrete pens for U-boats, heavily bombed many times, were damaged only at Trondheim...
Transport of war matériel will cease Aug. 15; traffic of furloughed men to & from Norway and the "horseshoe traffic" from Trondheim to Narvik via Swedish territory will be discontinued Aug. 20. Only sop to the Nazis was the phraseology of the announcement, which called Sweden's decision an "agreement." No one was fooled; Sweden gave no compensating concessions. The Swedish Army (500,000 wellarmed, well-trained men) was holding full-scale maneuvers in south Sweden at the moment of the announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force...
When the weather broke, day bombers and night bombers took wing from Britain. In their longest flight of the war from British bases, U.S. Fortresses flew 1,700 miles to Trondheim and back, left that Norwegian port's submarine and warship nests in flames. The same day, in evidence of the Eighth Air Force's growing might, another U.S. formation raided Heröya, 70 miles southwest of Oslo, and destroyed an aluminum plant...