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Narvik Command

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

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1940

Claude John Eyre Auchinleck13 May 1940

Harstad · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Takes command of reorganised British land forces in northern Norway.

Claude John Eyre Auchinleck13 May 1940

Harstad · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Auchinleck takes command of reorganised British land forces in the Narvik area.

Names involved

Claude John Eyre Auchinleck

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