Liberation of Finnmark
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The Liberation of Finnmark was an Allied military operation lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost co
Soviets meet Norwegians sheltering in a mine in Finnmark
Kirkenes left burning by the Germans
Colonel Arne Dagfin Dahl (left) in conversation with Peder Holt (right), the interim Governor of Finnmark, in Vadsø, in late 1944
Free Norwegian Forces march through Bjørnevatn in November 1944.
The Norwegian armed forces in exile were remnants of the armed forces of Norway that continued to fight the Axis powers from Allied countries, such as Britain and Canada, after they had escaped the Ge
Liberation of Finnmark
…The Liberation of Finnmark was an Allied military operation lasting from 23 October 1944 until 26 April 1945, in which Soviet and Norwegian forces wrested away control of Finnmark, the northernmost county of Norway, from Germany. It began with a Soviet offensive that liberated Kirkenes…
The Norwegian Brigade War Memorial in West Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh.
Norwegian soldiers on the front-line north of Narvik, May 1940
Guard at the Little Norway training camp in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sleipner at sea sometime after the Second World War.