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	Science Fair Projects - Namsos in April 1940
		In April and early May, 1940 Namsos was the scene of heavy fighting in World War Two between Anglo-French naval and military forces and German military and air forces.
		General De Wiart received orders on April 28 to evacuate Namsos, and on April 29, an evacuation convoy of destroyers, three British and one French, left Scapa Flow in Scotland under the command of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
		The Namsos campaign was not a success for the Allies, though the troops and naval forces and their commanders aquitted themselves well.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Namsos_in_April_1940 (2341 words)

	World War II
		Finland was invaded by the Soviet Union on 30 November 1939, beginning the Winter War, which lasted until March of 1940 with Finland ceding territory to the Soviet Union.
		On 9 April, 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway in Operation Weserübung, ostensibly for the threat of an Allied invasion from the region.
		In June of 1940 the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania, and Estonia, and annexed Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina from Romania.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/World_War_Two.htm (4435 words)

	The Rutlandshire
		On the evening of the 20th April 1940, the crew left Hovika and travelled by land to Skomsvoll.
		During the course of Sunday, 21st April 1940, George Swift, wireless operator on the Rutlandshire presented the adjacent photograph on the left to Helga Strand.
		She was 16 at the time and was serving the Rutlandshires crew with coffee and hot food that Sunday in the folk hall, Skomsvoll on the island of Øtteroya.
	www.royal-naval-reserve.co.uk /rutlandshire/location-f.htm (468 words)

	Weserubung: The German Invasion of Norway, 1940 German Attack
		On the morning of April 7, the southern minelaying force executing Wilfred was recalled because of the German warships reported in the south.
		By early morning of April 8, the minefield was in place, and Whitworth's force remained in the area to guard the entrance to Vestfjord.
		On April 11, on her return journey to Kiel, the Lutzow was torpedoed and severely damaged by a British submarine.
	www.magweb.com /sample/sconflic/co03wese.htm (3871 words)

	1940-WWII
		8 March 1940, At the beginning of the war a gas attack was greatly feared; the government issued everyone with gas masks to be carried at all times.
		9 July 1940, By a vote of Parliament, the capital of France is moved to Vichy.First battle between Warships from Italy and England at Punta Stilo, Italian battleship Conti di Cavour heavily damage.
		London was attacked on fifty-seven consecutive nights between 7 September and 2 November 1940 and experienced further heavy raids in December 1940 and March, April and May 1941.
	www.angelfire.com /pa5/erlsite/1940.html (3916 words)

	1940
		However, on 15 April he resigned and was replaced by Ingolf Christensen’s puppet government.
		On 23 April the Allies tried relief landings at Åndalsnes and Molde while a British task force led by the battleship Warspite shelled German positions to force a surrender at Narvik.
		In the spring of 1940 the Germans had been poised on the western borders of Germany since the campaign in Poland ended months before, and had been waiting for favorable weather to launch the next phase of the war: the conquering of France.
	www.angelfire.com /ct/ww2europe/1940.html (5074 words)

	The Invasion of Norway
		By April 22 they are in contact with the Germans in the Gudbrundsdal north of Lillehammer, and their first serious engagement takes place the next day.
		April 19: French cruiser EMILE BERTIN, participating in the landing of the Chasseurs Alpins at Namsos, is hit by a German bomb while returning.
		German air attacks were the chief factor in forcing the evacuation - Namsos was badly bombed April 20th, destroying the harbor facilities, and by the time of the evacuation was almost completely levelled, except for the ruined walls of the town church.
	www.feldgrau.com /norwegian.html (7010 words)

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		German a/c attack british troops in and around Namsos.
		Intercepted british radio messages say that the situation in Namsos is desperate.
		ASW trawler “Rutlandshire” is bombed and beached at Namsos.
	chrito.users1.50megs.com /1940/apr/20april40luft.htm (134 words)

	Norway, Narvik, France, Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk
		Faeroe Islands - On the 13th April, following the German invasion of Norway, an advance guard of Royal Marines landed on the Faeroe Islands, northwest of the Shetland Islands with the eventual agreement of the Danish Governor.
		German forces were well-established in the south and centre of Norway and had control of the air.
		Neither of these operations proved possible and on the 27th April the decision was taken to pull out of central Norway.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2RN04-194004.htm (2195 words)

	Trawlers Lost in the Namsen Fjord
		We arrived at Namsos at about 1000 on Sunday at the commencement of a severe air raid and were told to proceed to the mouth of the Fiord.
		We returned to Namsos at dusk that evening and on instructions from H.M.S. "Carlisle" jettisoned the ammunition before going alongside the pier to embark French troops which were subsequently disembarked to a French transport.
		Monday 29th April was spent at sea to the west of Namsen Fiord on patrol.
	www.royal-naval-reserve.co.uk /namsen-fjord/reports.htm (1399 words)

	British Military Aviation in 1940 - Part 1
		Between 1940 and 1945, the CRO repaires a total of 80,666 aircraft.
		The squadron subsequently flies from the deck of the aircraft carrier on 24 April, landing on the frozen surface of Lake Lesjaskogin in Norway.
		The squadron had been despatched to support Allied ground forces around Namsos and Andalsnes in Norway, with further assistance provided by aircraft from Glorious and the carrier HMS Ark Royal.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /milestones-of-flight/british_military/1940.html (805 words)

	Comprehensive information and links about Norway Namsos
		To the north, low forested hills rise fairly steeply to over 600 ft. To the east extends the wide Namdalen valley.
		The mean annual temperature in Namsos (city) is 5Â°C. The location by the river, and the large forests in made the town ideal for sawmills.
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	www.quicknation.com /Norway_Namsos.htm (235 words)

	Adrian Carton de Wiart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After a brief stint in command of the 61st Division in the Midlands of England, Carton De Wiart was summoned in April 1940 to take charge of a hastily drawn together Anglo-French force to occupy a small town in western Norway, Namsos.
		His orders were to take the city of Trondheim, some distance to the south, in conjunction with a naval attack and an advance from the south by troops landed at Åndalsnes.
		The naval attack on Trondheim, which was the reason for the Namsos landing, did not happen and his troops were sitting ducks without guns, transport, air cover or skis in a foot and a half of snow.
	88.208.194.172 /wiki/index.php/Adrian_Carton_De_Wiart (4144 words)

	Weserubung: The German Invasion of Norway, 1940 British Counterattack
		The effectiveness of this screen was almost completely broken when on April 15, the submarine U49 was sunk by the British destroyer Brazen at the approaches to Andfjord; the wreckage yielded a chart giving the dispositions of all U-boats in the North Sea supporting the Norwegian invasion.
		Until the evening of April 9, the damage to the Kriegsmarine had been relatively slight, the loss of Blucher notwithstanding; this situation was about to change.
		From the beginning of the campaign to June 15, 1940, a total of 370 ships and trawlers carried 107,581 officers and men, 16,102 horses, 20,339 vehicles, and 109,400 tons of supplies to Norway at a cost of twenty-one ships.
	www.magweb.com /sample/sconflic/co03wesc.htm (2783 words)

	17 April 1940 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		‘Mauriceforce’ is to land at Namsos, 80 miles to the north of Trondheim.
		The 15 mile fjord leading to the tiny port of Namsos proved too winding and narrow for bulky troop transports to navigate; the ships would be easy targets for the Luftwaffe.
		It is thought that she may have been sunk by minesweeper M 75 on 17 April or mined as she made her way home on 22 April.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/04/17.htm (895 words)

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		There were 25 dead and 48 wounded among her crew 1940 - Minesweeper HMS Dundoon mined & sunk off Yarmouth 1940 - ASW trawler HMS Jardine scuttled after being damaged by German aircraft off Norway the previous day 1940 - ASW trawler HMS Warwickshire sunk by German aircraft off Trondheim, Norway.
		The ship ended in March a one-month mission in Aceh province, the region hardest hit by the tsunami, and was on a humanitarian operation off Indonesia's eastern island of Alor when a deadly earthquake struck Nias on March 28.
		Since arriving on April 5, doctors in the 1,000-bed ship performed 123 surgeries and conducted more than 19,000 medical procedures at Nias, the embassy said in a statement on Friday.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/april/30Apr.txt (2046 words)

	25 April 1940
		25 April was expected to be a big day, as the arrival of the two additional carriers, this time carrying fighters, was expected to greatly assist the Army and Navy units operating in Northern Norway.
		At 0300, the two carriers were in position 65.12 N, 8.24 E in an overcast sky a force 2 wind out of the NW and 35 foot swells.
		Green section ran into an impenetrable weather front while returning to the ship, and ultimately all three returned to the area of Namsos and made successful force landings.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.etherington/1940/04/25.htm (1093 words)

	Timeline 1940
		British dive-bombers sink the German cruiser “Königsberg”, which was badly damaged by Norwegian guns on The 9th April*.
		From now on, the war in South Norway is at it´s end, and the scenario is moved to North Norway where the Norwegian forces have had time to get prepared.
		You are not allowed to copy, publish or in any way distribute material from these pages without the webmaster’s written permission.This site do not represent any kind of political statement, it is made by people with the historical interest of Norway in the period between 1940 - 1945.
	www.nuav.net /1940.html (999 words)

	Chronology 1940
		The British and French governments dispatched an expeditionary force to southern Norway, landing troops in Andalsnes and Namsos.
		The Anglo-French expeditionary force withdrew from Andalsnes and Namsos, limiting the Allied intervention to northern Norway.
		In the Battle of Britain, from August 8-October 31, 1940, the Luftwaffe lost 2,375 planes while the RAF lost 800 planes.
	www.indiana.edu /~league/1940.htm (4387 words)

	Fighter Ace ® Newsletter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		3 April 1940 - With the resignation of Lord Chatfield, Winston Churchill is appointed chair of the Ministerial Defence Committee.
		The heavy cruiser Blucher is sunk in the Oslo attack and the Karlsruhe is sunk by a British submarine.
		20 April 1940 - The British beachhead at Namsos is heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe.
	fighterace.ketsujin.com /NewsEvents/newsletter/2006_04_Newsletter_5.htm (4174 words)

	The Forum of the 1.Jagdmoroner Abteilung - What if .. Sweden declares war April 1940
		In April 1940 Swedens entire force of 400.000 men was put on full alert.
		A newly formed national goverment was formed, conscription was increased to 450 days and the armed forces streinght was incresed to 600.000 men, not including civilians who were formed into home guard, aircraft observer and various auxilary units.
		In addition there were a wave of divisions formed in April/May 1940, some of which fought in France so would also be capable of movement to Sweden.
	www.1jma.dk /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3813 (1982 words)

	Royal Marines Encyclopedia Article @ Saluted.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During the Second World War, a small party of Royal Marines were first ashore at Namsos in April 1940, seizing the approaches to the Norwegian town preparatory to a landing by the British Army two days later.
		The "Great Globe itself" surrounded by laurels was chosen by King George IV as a symbol of the Marines' successes in every quarter of the world.
		The laurels are believed to honour the gallantry they displayed during the investment and capture of Belle Isle, off Lorient, in April through June 1761.
	www.saluted.org /encyclopedia/Royal_Marines (5926 words)

	Decision To Invade Norway and Denmark
		WILFRED had been scheduled for 5 April, but it was not until that date that the British Government agreed to carry out the Norwegian operations independently of ROYAL MARINE; consequently, the mines were not laid until the morning of 8 April, by which time the German ships were advancing up the Norwegian coast.
		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.
		By 14 April, after Allied troops had begun landing, Hitler was on the verge of instructing the regiment at Narvik to withdraw into Sweden and be interned.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/70-7_02.htm (8582 words)

	World War II Day by Day: April 1940
		Subsequent air attacks on the Gneisenau, Scharnhorst, and Admiral Hipper by the British on the 12th fail.
		British and French troops eventually evacuate Namsos and Ǻndalsnes on May 1-2.
		Allied coordination with the Norwegian forces is poor, but the Germans in the area eventually withdraw at the end of April.
	www.germanwarmachine.com /daybyday/1940/april.htm (554 words)

	HyperWar: The Campaign in Norway [Chapter XII]
		Towards the end of April the second stage in the Norwegian campaign, which we have just traced in outline, opened with the first movement of British troops into the region south of Narvik.
		But, as we have already seen, the withdrawal of the Allied forces from the Trondheim area meant that the Germans might be expected to advance northwards up the coast until their air bases, if not their actual troops, could turn the besiegers of Narvik into the besieged.
		This battalion was shaken, first by the Namsos capitulation, then by a railway accident, in which seven of its men were killed, and finally by a curious dispute as to the verification of orders received from the Norwegian High Command for the demolition of road and railway as they withdrew.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Norway/UK-NWE-Norway-12.html (6299 words)

	HyperWar: The Campaign in Norway [Appendix A]
		The Royal Navy are making preliminary landings in the Namsos area with landing parties about 300 strong in all and it is their intention to seize and hold any point in the Namsos area at which your disembarkation might take place.
		This comprises an advance southwards on Trondheim from the Namsos area by 146th Infantry Brigade (Brigadier Phillips) which is probably to be reinforced by the first echelon of the leading French light division (three battalions and attached troops).
		This comprises a combined operation by the Navy and Army, with an R.A.F. component to be added later, with the object of forcing the entry of Trondheim Fjord, capturing Trondheim, and destroying the German forces in that area.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-NWE-Norway/UK-NWE-Norway-A.html (4715 words)

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