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- The Ofotfjord (English), Ofotfjorden (Norwegian), or Ufuohttá (Northern Sami) is a fjord in Nordland county, Norway. It is an inlet of the Norwegian Sea...
- Narvik were fought from 9 April to 8 June 1940, as a naval battle in Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian...
- Norwegians kept on fighting guerrilla operations inland. Possession of the Ofotfjord was also important to the German Kriegsmarine (navy) since it provided...
- Tirpitz in the Ofotfjord/Bogenfjord...
- ORP Gryf. There were two ships built: ORP Grom - Sunk on 4 May 1940 in Ofotfjord near Narvik ORP Blyskawica - Currently preserved as a museum ship in Gdynia...
- Anton Schmitt and Z18 Hans Lüdemann landed troops at the entrance to the Ofotfjord while their sisters proceeded to Narvik and Elvegårdsmoen to unload their...
- troops on 6 April and set sail the next day. When they arrived at the Ofotfjord, west of Narvik, on the early morning of 9 April, the three ships of the...
- Battle of Narvik – The British Royal Navy attacks the German fleet in the Ofotfjord. At Bergen, German cruiser Königsberg is sunk by British Fleet Air Arm...
- but the German warships used their superior speed to escape. In the Ofotfjord leading to Narvik, the ten German destroyers of Gruppe 1 made their approach...
- nine destroyers, three sweeping mines and six in an offensive role, into Ofotfjord to neutralise a force of eight German destroyers trapped near the port...