Namsos campaign
The Namsos campaign, in Namsos, Norway, and its surrounding area involved heavy fighting between Anglo-French and Norwegian naval and military forces on the one hand, and German military, naval and air forces on the other in April and early May 1940. It was one of the first significant occasions during the Second World War when British and French land forces fought the German Army.
| Namsos campaign | |||||||
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| Part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War | |||||||
British troops pick through the ruins of Namsos after a German air raid, April 1940. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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United Kingdom France Norway | Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Adrian Carton De Wiart Sylvestre-Gérard Audet Ole Berg Getz | - | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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3,500 British 2,500 French 500 Norwegians | 6,000 | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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British: 19 killed 42 wounded 96 missing | ? | ||||||
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