The Battle of Hegra Fortress was a 25-day engagement in the 1940 Norwegian campaign which saw a small force of Norwegian volunteers fighting numerically...
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Hegra Fortress (Norwegian: Hegra festning) is a small mountain fortress in the village of Hegra in the municipality of Stjørdal in Trøndelag county, Norway...
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Hans Reidar Holtermann (category Knights of the Order of the Sword)
Holtermann is best known as the commander of Hegra Fortress during the Battle of Hegra Fortress in the Norwegian Campaign of 1940. During the inter-war years Holtermann...
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Anne Margrethe Strømsheim (redirect from Lotten fra Hegra)
Battle of Hegra Fortress as a nurse. The battle saw a small force of Norwegian volunteers holding back German forces for 25 days, with Hegra Fortress...
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Brodie helmet (redirect from Battle bowler)
At the outbreak of World War I, none of the combatants provided steel helmets to their troops. Soldiers of most nations went into battle wearing cloth,...
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(1940) Namsos Campaign (1940) Battle of Vinjesvingen (1940) Battle of Hegra Fortress (1940) Battles of Narvik (1940) Battle of Gratangen (1940) Operation...
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last strongholds of Norwegian resistance in southern Norway during World War II, the other being Hegra Fortress. Under the command of Second Lieutenant...
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north, other British troops landed in the Lofoten Islands. The Battle of Hegra Fortress began in Norway. Depth charges from British destroyers sank the...
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Martin Siem (category Norwegian Institute of Technology alumni)
with the Nazi German invasion, Siem fought for his country in the Battle of Hegra Fortress. After the conventional Norwegian armed forces capitulated, Siem...
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Partially mobilised elements of the 3rd Dragoon Regiment at the outskirts of Trondheim A company of volunteers at Hegra Fortress The Alta and Varanger Battalions...
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