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Delayed Assault

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records
1940Date range
2Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1940

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill24 April 1940

London · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Faces frustration over delays in the Allied attack on Narvik.

Pierse Mackesy24 April 1940

Narvik · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Resists an immediate frontal assault because of terrain and troop readiness.

Pierse Mackesy24 April 1940

Narvik · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Mackesy resists an immediate frontal assault on Narvik because of the risks to his troops.

Names involved

Pierse MackesyWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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