8 April 1940
Invasion of Norway
Soldiers in the British Army land at Namsos in Norway
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Namsos in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Soldiers in the British Army land at Namsos in Norway
Carton de Wiart commands British forces landed at Namsos to threaten German-held Trondheim.
The Allied Expeditionary Force lands at Namsos
British Forces are withdrawn from Namsos
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