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Royal Air Force in aciton over Norwegian coast. Photograph taken by the Royal Air Force near Bergen on the 9th April, showing a Norwegian gunboat rounding up suspect ships to establish their identity. (The gunboat is the 3rd. vessel from the bottom of the picture).

De volledige tekst op de panelen luidt: Plaats van crash Plaats van graf 10 Mei 1940: Piershil P/O Robert W.H. Echlin RAF 77117 – 36 jaar Piershil Oud-Beijerland 2Lt./wnr. Franciscus H. Stoovelaar Mi.Lu. – 24 jaar Amsterdam 1Lt. vl./wnr.. Willy J.E. Künzel Mi.Lu. – 32 jaar Grebbeberg Sgt. maj. vl. Adrianus J.G. Oostindië Mi.Lu. – 45 jaar Zeist Dpl. sgt. rtf. Piet Boon Mi.Lu. – 21 jaar Grebbeberg Oud-Beijerland ...

First picture of the R.A.F. in action over the Norwegian coast. A low altitude photographed of four He 115 seaplanes moored off bergen. Taken by an R.A.F. aircraft in the course of actual operations against the enemy. The large white shape of a bomb dropping is seen on the edge of the photograph - picture taken 10th April.

Record of sitting of the Norwegian Council of Ministers on Marsh 2nd 1940. The crossed words mean in translation: Torp (Norwegian Minister of Finance) even, when the French and English forces should come, should we simply protest or should we make the necessary arrangements in order to stop their passage through our country .... Kohy (Norwegian Minister of Foreign Matters) means, that we should content ...

U.S. aircraft carrier strikes German shipping in Norwegian waters. The U.S. aircraft carrier Ranger, whose planes sank German ships in Norwegian water, cruises in the Atlantic, as an escorting U.S. destroyer (background) guards the 14,500-ton vessel against enemy submarines. During October, 1943, planes from the Ranger, operating at the time with a British task force, sank at least six German vessels, ...

First picture of the R.A.F. in action over the Norwegian coast. Near Kristiansand: A large Merchantman with Hatches open. A cross can be seen painted on the Deck behind the bridge structure. This would suggest a Deliberate attempt to represent to Britsh aviators that this was a neutral vessel, not, as was evidently the case, carrying Nazi stores etc. one other merchantman and two small vessels can ...

The rise and fall of the Nazi State. Part III: Annexation becomes military attack. German troops disembark in Norway - German soldiers disembark on the shores of Norway which, under the guise of protection, Germany invaded on April 9, 1940. Norway used every means at her disposal to repel the German troops, but the invitation had been so secretly and cleverly prepared that Norwegian forces could not ...