German Landings Norway –April 9, 1940

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Clockwise from top: German forces advancing near Bagn in Valdres · Norwegian artillery in action near Narvik · King Haakon VII of Norway and his son Crown Prince Olav during a German air raid on Molde · German Gebirgsjäger troops near Narvik · German bombing of the Norwegian coastal fortress Oscarsborg. The German pre-dawn attacks in southern and central Norway…

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