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Wikipedia: The Battles of Narvik were fought from 9 April until 8 June 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War. The two naval battles in the Ofotfjord on 10 April and 13 April were fought between the British Royal Navy and the German Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought between Norwegian, French, British, and Polish troops against German and Austrian mountain troops, shipwrecked Kriegsmarine sailors and German Fallschirmjäger from 1st battalion of the 1st Regiment, 7th Flieger Division. Narvik provided an ice-free harbour in the North Atlantic for iron ore transported by the railway from Kiruna in Sweden.
![[Warspite engaging shore batteries during the Second Battle of Narvik]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/HMS_Warspite_2C_Norway_1940_s.jpg "Warspite engaging shore batteries during the Second Battle of Narvik")
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![[Narvik, 1940]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Narvik_s.jpg "Narvik, 1940")
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![[Group of Norwegian soldiers on the Narvik front]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Norwegian_soldiers_on_the_Narvik_front_s.jpg "Group of Norwegian soldiers on the Narvik front")
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![[British troops returning to the UK at Greenock in June 1940.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Norwegian_troops_greenock_s.jpg "British troops returning to the UK at Greenock in June 1940.")
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![[British soldiers wounded at Narvik recuperating in Mearnskirk Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Navrik_wounded_in_Mearnskirk_Hospital_s.jpg "British soldiers wounded at Narvik recuperating in Mearnskirk Hospital, Glasgow, Scotland")
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![[The remains of Georg Thiele in 2008.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Z2_Georg_Thiele_s.jpg "The remains of Georg Thiele in 2008.")
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![[Hermann Künne on fire.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Hermann_kunne_on_fire_13apr1940_s.jpg "Hermann Künne on fire.")
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