Al Murray
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Certainly in terms of, well, let's be blunt, the Royal Navy's dominance.
Well, exactly.
In that theatre.
All about supplies.
It's all about supplies.
And that's what's being fought for here.
Yes.
At Narvik, yeah.
Yeah, at Narvik.
The British aren't doing this out of the kindness of their heart on this occasion.
No.
No.
Because Denmark's been invaded and occupied pretty much in pretty short order.
At the same time, as German troops are steaming up the Oslo fjord into the south of Norway towards the capital, and you've got Fallschirmjäger being dropped in to capture key positions with extremely mixed results.
Meanwhile, there's another invasion force is sent to the north seaport of Trondheim, while you have 2,000 Gebirgsjäger, who were mountain troops, with their little Edelweiss, landed at Narvik.
deep in the... Now, you've just been to... Ofertfjord.
Okay.
I'm going to defer to you... Ofertfjord.
...for all the pronunciation.
Ofertfjord.