8 April 1940
Admiral Hipper Action
Commands Admiral Hipper during actions linked to the Norway invasion.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Norwegian Sea in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Commands Admiral Hipper during actions linked to the Norway invasion.
Commands Gneisenau during Operation Juno.
Leads German naval forces against Allied shipping during the evacuation.
Marschall leads German heavy ships in a sortie intended to disrupt the Allied evacuation from Norway.
Commands Scharnhorst during the sinking of HMS Glorious.
Provenance
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