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	German tanker Altmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Altmark was a German tanker and supply vessel, best known for her support of the German commerce raider, the "pocket battleship" Admiral Graf Spee, and her subsequent involvement in the Altmark Incident.
		Altmark was assigned to support Admiral Graf Spee during her raid in the South Atlantic.
		The boarding was a breach of Norwegian neutrality and would be pivotal for the subsequent German decision to occupy Norway and Denmark in April 1940.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/German_tanker_Altmark (428 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Phony War
		German efforts to interdict the Allies' trans-Atlantic trade at sea ignited the Second Battle of the Atlantic.
		The German occupation of Denmark and Norway commenced on April 9.
		In November 1939, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee was attacked by the Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles in the Battle of the River Plate.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Phony_War (1122 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On learning of the German movement, the Admiralty came to the conclusion that the Germans were attempting to break the blockade that the Allies had placed on Germany and use their fleet to disrupt Atlantic trade routes.
		This German air superiority in the area led the British to decide that all southern regions had to be left to submarines and the RAF, while surface vessels would concentrate on the north.
		By 28 May, the Allies had succeeded in recapturing Narvik from German forces, but the German invasion of France and the Low Countries had immensely altered the overall situation of the war and the importance of Norway was considerably lessened.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Norwegian_Campaign (7567 words)

	Norwegian Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Though the weather did make reconnaissance difficult, the two German groups were discovered 105 miles south of the Naze (the southernmost part of Norway) slightly past 8:00 by RAF patrols and reported as One cruiser and six destroyers.
		At noon the Polish submarine Orze&322; confronted and sunk the German tanker Rio de Janeiro in the Skagerrak.
		German troops quickly moved in and began the occupation of Denmark, almost without firing a single shot.
	norwegian-campaign.iqnaut.net (6396 words)

	Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
		The German Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
		When it became known on the morning of the 8th that the German Fleet, which had been sighted by aircraft in the North Sea on the previous day, was at sea in the vicinity of Norway the mine-laying force was withdrawn and Plan R 4 was abandoned.
		German casualties were 1,317 killed, 1,604 wounded, and 2,375 lost at sea or otherwise missing.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_02.htm (8582 words)

	German tanker Altmark (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		'''Altmark''' was a German tanker / unarmed supply vessel, best known for her support of Admiral Graf Spee and later involvement in the Altmark Incident.
		She was built in Hamburg in 1938 by Blohm and Voss.
		When Admiral Graf Spee was scuttled in Montevideo Altmark returned to Germany, steaming north of Great Britain and along the Norwegian coast.
	german-tanker-altmark.iqnaut.net (180 words)

	Battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On proposal of the general Staff of the German Army General Falkenhorst was designated as commander of this operation.
		German soldiers of the third division "Alpenjaegers" or Alp hunters led by general-major Dietl are waiting to be shipped in towards Norway.
		The German High Commander, General Kurt Himer, attended on April 9th at 2.00 pm paid a visit to the Danish King Christiaan X. In some secret army achieves a report of this meeting is kept: “The 70 year old King was inwardly deeply shocked although he managed to hide this.
	www.worldwar.nl /battles/Norway.htm (1846 words)

	Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-The Navy's HERE . Rescue of 300 British POW's From Altmark. February 1940.-
		Altmark had acted as a tanker and supply ship for the German battleship Graf Spee, during her raiding cruise in the South Atlantic.
		He replied that Altmark had been searched three times since she entered Norwegian waters, and no prisoners had been discovered, he added his orders were to resist any entry by force, and, as we could see, his torpedo tubes were at that time trained on Cossack.
		Altmark, came into view as Cossack steamed round a bend, her bows pointing inshore and covered in ice, against the snow covered mountains her stark fl bulk made a striking contrast.
	ahoy.tk-jk.net /macslog/Rescueof300BritishPOWsFro.html (1477 words)

	TBRNews.org
		The German army quickly crushed Poland but Hitler made no effort to attack either France or England, hoping that eventually some kind of a settlement could be made with both countries.
		Many reasons have been given for this attack but a careful study of German and Soviet records indicates that Hitler viewed this campaign solely as a preemptive strike against a country which was rapidly preparing to attack him first.
		When the leading edge of the German Army was before Moscow, the capital was subject to heavy air raids by the Luftwaffe, and the bulk of the Soviet government and the diplomatic corps had fled.
	www.tbrnews.org /Archives/a1202.htm (3458 words)

	Phony War - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The term has cognates in many other languages, notably the German Sitzkrieg ("sitting war," a pun on Blitzkrieg), the French drôle de guerre ("funny war" or "strange war") and the Polish dziwna wojna ("strange war").
		German efforts to interdict this trade at sea ignited the Second Battle of the Atlantic.
		In France the period from the official declaration of war on Germany on September 3 until the German invasion of the Benelux and France is known as drôle de guerre ("funny war").
	wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Phony_War (1087 words)

	Full Thrust
		His ship, the tanker Confederation Naval Auxiliary (CNA) Fort Brockhurst had been alongside the carrier for several minutes now; the transfer lines had been rigged and fuel was flowing from the tanker to the warship.
		Some of my most exiting naval wargames revolved around the auxiliaries which travelled with the fleets, and in campaign games the opposition's tankers were always a prime target.
		To carry out a refuelling operation the tanker and the recipient must be travelling at the same speed on the same course and be within 1".
	www.btinternet.com /~david.manley/wargames/thrust/hgas.htm (1388 words)

	Graf Spee
		Showing visible signs of her tangle with British cruisers at the Battle of the River Plate, the German pocket battleship Graf Spee slips into the neutral waters of the Montevideo roadstead accompanied by the Uruguayan gunboat Rio Negro for light repairs.
		Showing visible signs of her tangle with British cruisers at the Battle of the River Plate, the German pocket battleship Graf Spee slips into the neutral waters of the Montevideo roadstead for light repairs.
		This was to be the last haven for the Graf Spee which was later scuttled at the harbour mouth, her commander Kapitan zur See Langsdorff believing a large British fleet to be waiting for attempted escape into the South Atlantic.
	www.kriegsmarineart.com /graf_spee.htm (1200 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Norway was a neutral country and, although made aware of Britain's view that the Altmark was carrying British prisoners and therefore breaching her neutrality, was also in fear of being invaded by Germany and therefore did not want to create an incident which could be used to precipitate such action.
		Altmark had requested a pilot but as none was available, Trygg lent them a seaman who knew the waters well until they reached Alesund.
		Altmark was in Norwegian territorial waters but her voyage was quite legal if she was a genuine merchant ship.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /hmscossack/download/altmark.doc (2677 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Cossack of the Tribal class
		Her guns had been removed and she was posing as a merchant ship to assure free passage between the Norwegian offshore islands and the mainland.
		The German ship received a shot across her bow in an effort to force her out of Norwegian territorial waters.
		Through negotiations with the Norwegians, Captain Vian was permitted to approach the tanker and land a boarding party.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4423.html (1264 words)

	1940 - What happened in 1940 ?
		Mass execution of Poles, committed by Germans in the city of Poznan, Warthegau.
		World War II: The USS Greer becomes the first United States ship fired upon by a German submarine in the war, even though the United States is a neutral power.
		During a nighttime air raid by the German Luftwaffe, St.
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /1940 (723 words)

	Altmark - [legacy] RTMARK: Alternative Markets \| The Mutual Funds \| New projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Named for a region of Germany, Altmark was an unarmed German tanker that served as a After Graf Spee's loss in December, Altmark remained in the South
		The Ferring (State aid) case was decided whilst Altmark was being argued.
		Altmark confirmed that this equivalence did not extend to all cases of funding
	pilotorg.com /?q=altmark (166 words)

	World War II Database: Your WW2 History Reference Destination
		Altmark was the German tanker and supply vessel that accompanied the pocket battleship (later re-classified as heavy cruiser) Admiral Graf Spee on the successful raiding campaign against British transports early in the Battle of the Atlantic.
		For the next nine weeks, she hid in the vastness of the Atlantic, evading Allied detection, but by Feb 1940 she was running low in fuel and other supplies and must make port call.
		She was intercepted by British destroyer HMS Cossack under the command of Captain Philip Vian at Jøssingfjord.
	www.ww2db.com /rsslander.php?id=S292 (212 words)

	Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum :: View topic - BRADWELL TURNER
		At that time the German tanker Altmark had on board her some 300 British merchant seamen, captured when their ships were sunk by the raiding German battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
		Altmark’s captain was trying to use the shelter of neutral Norwegian waters to make his escape back to Germany.
		After a brief struggle, in which six Germans were killed, and six wounded, and others fled across the frozen ice to the shore, Altmark was captured and her holds were opened.
	www.chforum.info /php/viewtopic.php?t=977 (2201 words)

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		2 german steamers with Coffee and Sugar arrived in Germany from overseas.
		German armored ship “Admiral Graf Spee” transfers crews of British freighters “Newton Beech” and “Ashlea” to tanker “Altmark”.
		The two German ships then part company for a time.
	chrito.users1.50megs.com /1939/okt/18okt39see.htm (139 words)

	Norwegian Campaign info here at en.my-widgets.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The German commander, Commodore Friedrich Bonte, lost his life when his flagship Wilhelm Heidkamp was sunk.
		En route the ships suffered further harassment from German bombers, forcing them to divert course west away from the shoreline.
		Parts of the Scotland-based Norwegian Army participated in the liberation of Finmark (the northernmost province of Norway) during the winter of 1944-45 after the area had been evacuated by the Germans in a scorched earth operation before the anticipated onslaught of the Red Army.
	en.my-widgets.com /Norwegian_Campaign (7808 words)

	Ships of The Royal Navy WW2
		The task force was spotted by a german scout plane on 30/7 and the attackers received a hot welcome, sustaining heavy losses.
		The German submarine U-517 was sunk in the North Atlantic south-west of Ireland, in position 46.16N, 17.09W, by depth charges from Albacore aircraft (Sqdn 817/I) of the British carrier HMS Victorious.
		This class were the first aircraft carriers with fully armoured hangars to be built for any navy, and an examination of the armouring shows that resistance to 6in shells or to a destroyer's guns at close range was at least as important as that to bombs.
	www.imaginationscyprus.com /wip/SOTRN_ww2.htm (3237 words)

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	nothingandall.blogspot.com /2005_02_13_nothingandall_archive.html (7157 words)

	Jossingfjord
		For a brief moment in 1940 this small quiet fjord was host to the controversial Altmark incident in the complex chess game of world power.
		In February 1940 the German tanker Altmark was moving down the coast of Norway, pursued by the British Royal Navy.
		Norway was then criticised by the Germans for not preventing the British attack.
	www.stavangertravel.com /trip/jossingfjord.cfm (223 words)

	The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II--1940
		German freighter Konsul Horn escapes from Aruba and, disguised as a Soviet merchantman, manages to deceive U.S. Navy patrol planes from the Neutrality Patrol and British light cruiser HMS Enterprise (see 6 February).
		German freighter Helgoland sails from Puerto Colombia, Colombia; despite the efforts of destroyers Bainbridge (DD-246), Overton (DD-239), and Sturtevant (DD-240) to pursue her over the ensuing days, Helgoland will make good her attempt to escape the confines of the Caribbean (see 3 November and 30 November).
		German freighter Rhein, having been trailed by destroyer Simpson (DD-221) and, later, MacLeish (DD-220), is intercepted by Dutch destroyer leader Van Kinsbergen near the Florida Straits, and is scuttled by her own crew to avoid capture.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USN/USN-Chron/USN-Chron-1940.html (13238 words)

	TIME.com: Rescue in a Fjord -- Feb. 26, 1940 -- Page 1
		The Altmark had not proceeded more than 100 miles south of Bergen, closely hugging the craggy, fjord-bitten coast, before three big British reconnaissance planes swooped low over her.
		The destroyer Intrepid halted the Altmark, but while Captain Philip Louis Vian of the senior destroyer Cossack had words with the Norwegian gunboat's commander, the Altmark slid into Joesing Fjord, a deep, narrow, dead-end harbor five miles long.
		The Norwegians explained that their authorities had found the Altmark to be unarmed, were unaware of any prisoners aboard.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,763233,00.html (617 words)

	SFSFW: Full Thrust Page
		This was typical of the way the German High Seas Fleet operated in World War One, arranging for maximum availability of their major warships when a sortie against the British was planned.
		His ship, the tanker Confederation Naval Auxiliary (CNA) Fort Brockhursthad been alongside the carrier for several minutes now; the transfer lineshad been rigged and fuel was flowing from the tanker to the warship.
		To carry out a refuelling operation the tanker and the recipient mustbe travelling at the same speed on the same course and be within 1".Once this is achieved it takes one turn to pass fuel lines and set the pumpsto work.
	www.homestead.com /SFSFWFT/files/SFSFWFT.html (13677 words)

	Altmark - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		See German tanker Altmark for the skip named after Altmark
		You can find it there under the keyword Altmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmark)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Altmarkandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Altmark (146 words)

	February 16 Encyclopedia Article @ GetitFreeHere.com (Get It Free Here) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		1940 - Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, is boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.
		1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d.
		1531 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b.
	www.getitfreehere.com /encyclopedia/February_16 (1890 words)

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