James Holland
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Appearances Over Time
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You know, the vessels aren't properly worked up.
They're largely untested.
The crews are completely green, etc.
So very, very quickly, Marine Gruppe 1 or 1 is for Narvik with 10 destroyers.
The aforementioned 10 destroyers under Commodore Bonte with 2,000 Gebirgsjäger.
And supported out at sea by the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau.
Ah.
Remember them?
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And then there's Marine Group of Two, which is for Trondheim, which is a little bit further down the coast.
It's a heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, plus four destroyers and 1,700 troops.
It's commanded by Admiral Gunther.
It will not work.
Oh dear.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yep, brand new.
And Eggerson is just a little outpost.
So that's a kind of, you know.
But then there are these Trojan horse supply ships.
And this is key to the whole thing.